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pollyannaish

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12 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted aahillnnopsyStarts with PEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

Word origin

From Pollyanna + -ish.

Used in a sentence

  • Accordingly the objection “Is not optimalism simply too Pollyanna-ish to be plausible?” can be met effectively.
  • Even long before this choice of character of the year was made, critics were complaining about the [Chinese] government’s Pollyannaish touting of mèng 梦, saying that the dreams of most people were in vain.
  • If that sounds a little bit Pollyannaish, it’s because Schmidhuber’s own experience[…]must have taught him that competition can create losers as well as winners.

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