sanguine
adjective
cheerfully optimistic, sometimes to the point of seeming complacent, oblivious, or naive.
sanguineness
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a word derived from
sanguine.
Example Sentences
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But it is the next interest rate decision on 9 May that may explain Mr Sunak's sanguineness.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2024
Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Jack is seized with an unreasoning sanguineness.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
The step from the sublime to the ridiculous is not more easy than that from sanguineness to despair.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
The real cost he believed would frighten possible investors and with the peculiar sanguineness of the short-sighted, he thought that it would work out somehow.
From The Lady Doc by Caroline Lockhart
