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
• Still, investors seemed to shrug off the air of pessimism.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• All of this has created a cloud of pessimism around Biden.
  — Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Rather than being the sum of all of our fears, the year was in many ways a possible harbinger of a pessimism thaw.
  — Zachary Karabell, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2022
• And then this year amid economic pessimism, Democrats slipped with this group.
  — Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
• There’s a lot more pessimism in the crypto market today than there was 12 months ago.
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• There’s a relentless gender pessimism in the air, too — on the street, on dating apps, in the Supreme Court and, of course, in rap music.
  — Niela Orr, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Now, nearly all of Gapen’s pessimism has fallen by the wayside.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
• The positive signs have fueled caution about the rush to pessimism.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 22 July 2022
• And true to Sandstrom’s prediction, their pessimism about the prospect of talking with strangers was eased.
  — Joe Keohane, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2021
• At present, both public opinion polling and the discourse of elites suggest a deep pessimism about the strength of the United States in the future.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
• The Iran nuclear talks resume on Monday in Austria, and pessimism seems to be the order of the day.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2021
• But a pervasive pessimism felt by the Chinese people will be the toughest to deal with, Chang said.
  — Fox News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Rising seniors say the tight job market is the No. 1 reason for their pessimism.
  — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024