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
Blessed, labour-lightening sanguineness of youth! that can bound over intermediate steps of toil, and accomplish in a few thoughts the work of months or years.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
He laughed aloud at the sanguineness of it.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various
His poverty and sanguineness of temper might prompt him to use them.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
