How to Use pessimist in a Sentence

pessimist

noun

• Note to viewers: Don’t let the pessimists get you down.
  — Dennis Kneale, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
• Two neighbors in their 80s, Raisa and Svitlana, strolling through the snow in Kharkiv, were among the pessimists.
  — Carlotta Gall Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The pessimist says that the Patriots simply aren’t good enough to go on the road and beat a tough team.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Yong: The pessimist, and maybe the realist, in me is not hopeful.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020
• But a few pessimists maintain that the premise of the question itself is wrong.
  — Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2024
• But Graves isn’t a pessimist about the country’s future.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 2 June 2020
• In truth, though, Scott-Morgan would have had good reason to be a pessimist.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
• There is always something for naysayers and pessimists to point at to make the case that all is not well.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Yet in his own life, Prince was anything but a cynic or a pessimist.
  — Todd S. Purdum, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2019
• What the optimists and pessimists agree on is that the business model has to change.
  — Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• For two weeks since late January, the pessimists had the upper hand.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• There are hints the pessimists may be correct (see Briefing).
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• In a win against Ole Miss, Auburn gave both the optimists and pessimists something to zero in on.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2019
• At the time, Rank may have sounded like a pessimist: Many summer camps hadn’t even been canceled yet.
  — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• But the fall never happened–and the pessimists have quietly moved the cliff edge into 2024.
  — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• But the fall never happened–and the pessimists have quietly moved the cliff edge into 2024.
  — Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
• Keep in mind that this is the worst-case scenario offered by a relative pessimist.
  — Tyler Cowen, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019
• Dollar pessimists often point to the fall in the dollar’s share of global reserves ...
  — Jon Hartley, National Review, 30 June 2023
• Roubini has a reputation on Wall Street as a bit of a pessimist.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2022
• But pessimists have been citing similar cracks for well over a year.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The doleful pessimist would also point to the rise of nationalism.
  — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2019
• The pessimist would suggest the Packers are playing with fire and that lack of dominance will catch up with them in the postseason.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• The pessimist might see it as a defibrillating jolt to bring the latest Silo in line with the other three.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
• This Augustine was not a pessimist but a champion of hope.
  — Aaron Alexander Zubia, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• However, only the biggest pessimist couldn’t have imaged how bad the Reds would be.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Call me a pessimist, but a bathtub with an overflow drain is a tub that’s almost always half empty.
  — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019
• And a pessimist might further note that failures of leadership lead, in our present, to many of our children being shot.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Inevitably, a new set of pessimists now voice a fresh worry: that bond yields might go on rising for less welcome reasons.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• The Celtics beat the point spread after losses far more often than the Nets did; the optimists responded to losses far better than the pessimists did.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 May 2018
• Nobody can be just one thing, either an optimist or a pessimist.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024