How to Use pessimism in a Sentence

pessimism

noun
  • Although the economy shows signs of improving, a sense of pessimism remains.
  • The pessimism and shame are felt even in the Oval Office.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Marks wrote in a memo at the peak of market pessimism in 2008.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • Maybe the George Floyd protests will change that racial pessimism.
    — John Blake, CNN, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Still, investors seemed to shrug off the air of pessimism.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
  • My pessimism about whether this can work is hard to shake, though.
    — Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The White House shares the hunch that the pessimism has a lot to do with media coverage.
    — Laura Gersony, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The level of pessimism dipped to an all-time low of 2 percent.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The vehemence with which the question is posed these days seems linked to a turn to pessimism across the West.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The pessimism of the electorate is at once a cause and an effect of Biden’s challenges.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The pessimism of the electorate is at once a cause and an effect of Mr. Biden’s challenges.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2021
  • That doesn’t change the fear and pessimism that comes with being a fan of the Detroit Lions.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Things may not be as bad as pessimism is making them out to be.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2024
  • On the streets, there is a mix of hope, apathy, and pessimism about what the future holds.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • Yet as dire as their fate looks, some flowers bloom amid the gloom, taking the edge off the book’s pessimism.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • The book thrums with a newfound pessimism; Ariely seems to have lost faith in his old parlor tricks.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The Tata Tiago may be the car to drive the sector out of its surrounding pessimism.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps the pessimism at the heart of the song did refer merely to football.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • But the 2020 race is taking place against a backdrop of deep pessimism and a profound sense of loss.
    — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 23 July 2019
  • All of this has created a cloud of pessimism around Biden.
    — Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
  • But for me, there’s one very big thing with the whole notion of optimism and pessimism.
    — latimes.com, 25 May 2018
  • Don’t let pessimism about the world keep you from living fully.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • But here again, the pessimism is not supported by the data.
    — Nicholas R. Lardy, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2024
  • This is not a call for pessimism, but rather one for perspective.
    — Ben Marks and Brett Angel, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The pessimism is mirrored by investor bets of a stock drop that are among the harshest in Europe.
    — Richard Weiss, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2020
  • As Venus and Chiron clash, pessimism gets the better of you.
    — USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
  • Fear is not ours; pessimism does not belong to us; defeat is not our choice.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Asked recently to expand on her pessimism, gas was the first thing on her mind.
    — Eve Washington, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Minnesota’s odds of winning the series (-1000) are a sign of the pessimism around Curry’s injury status.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • If [consumer and business pessimism] is maintained, consumer spending will drop.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025

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