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Noun
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Nitpicking and naysayers may have some slight doubt and Aberg has lost strokes Around the Green in three of his last four starts and Putting in two of his last four tournaments.—
Jay Ginsbach,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025 -
Everything had to go perfectly the next two days, all while TV news camera crews on boats and naysayers on land watched on.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Lee’s cynical cardsharp of a brother, Julius (Jacob Elordi), was meant to be part of that dream move, but the call of gambling takes Julius to Las Vegas instead.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Now, posters are more cynical and there’s a fatalist bent to the conversations that wasn’t there before.—
Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
22 Apr. 2025
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In another survey, optimists were 40% more likely to get promoted over the next year, six times more likely to be highly engaged at work and five times less likely to burn out than pessimists.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Major Intermediate Buy Signal Still Intact The AAII Bull-Bear Spread residing at minus 40.1 continues to reflect a percentage of pessimists trouncing the optimists by a factor of 3, with recent readings some of the most Bearish in history, given that Main Street is usually Bullish.—
John Buckingham,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Listen, many Gomez fans were skeptical when the singer confirmed her relationship with the prolific music producer back in December 2023.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
25 Apr. 2025
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Some are skeptical given his slight wingspan and arm length and wonder if a move to left guard may eventually be necessary.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But, then, genuine misanthropic disdain is part of Verhoeven's tool kit.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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To describe Mickey 17 as a sendup, by the way, is to distinguish it from satire, which would require a deeper cynicism or genuine misanthropic disdain.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This marks the most pessimistic attitude on jobs that Gallup has recorded since January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
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Both predictions are more pessimistic than the fund’s January projections, which came before Trump’s flurry of tariff announcements took America’s average import tax to its highest level in a century.—
Olesya Dmitracova,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Negativist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negativist. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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