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
Much of this effect is chargeable less on an Epicurean levity of feeling or on party-trammels, than on real sanguineness of disposition, and a certain fineness of professional tact.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
I went, wrath and horror struggling in my heart with the sanguineness of woman.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Peter's arm did not recover so soon as Urquhart's sanguineness had predicted.
From The Lee Shore by Dame Rose Macaulay
