Micawber

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Recent Examples of Micawber He’s got the twinkly eye and the sly, gregarious spiritual ease of a Micawber or a Cheeryble. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024 The smallest of the Micawber brood glides away in his baby carriage, because the bailiff is dragging the hallway carpet out from under the front door. Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Micawber
Noun
  • But isn’t the cynical explanation also the Pollyanna one?
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Sunshine Cleaning gave Adams’s Pollyanna era a slight edge.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But the optimist thinks this is Google’s ambient computing vision coming alive.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Phaedra, ever the optimist, reassures her that this group is like family, and even through the mess, sisterhood is still within reach.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Captive Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar explores Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes’ life changing experiences when he was captured by Turkish pirates in 1575 and held for ransom.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
  • But Don Quixote, which is often called the first modern novel, could not decisively break from the chivalric tradition without affirming its very real power to ensorcel the reader.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024

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“Micawber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Micawber. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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