rose-tinted
Britishadjective
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Also: rose-coloured. excessively optimistic
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See rose-coloured
Example Sentences
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Your inclination toward dreaming, and how easily you are consumed by it, is your heart’s way of creating not just a gorgeous life for yourself, but a more rose-tinted world for everyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mao after 1949 has been thoroughly reassessed by historians and is now regarded as a monster by most right-minded people; but views of early Mao—from 1921 until 1949—remain stubbornly rose-tinted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Some students come to university with "rose-tinted glasses", says Lauren Howard, who manages counselling services at the University of Bradford.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
Many of the things we see in high-definition today—wars, poverty, inequality—have been edited out of a rose-tinted view of previous decades.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024
Her back was thunderhead blue, her rose-tinted breast had the brightness of cloud tops.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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