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
• Such events do seem to add to the pessimism about the protection of basic rights around the world.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2018
• 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
• For the young dissidents who have grown up in the age of Putin, such pessimism is easy to buy into.
  — Howard Amos, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2018
• 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
• His offense, however, has been the greater source of pessimism.
  — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
• But pessimism has risen sharply amid President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the government workforce and a dizzying range of tariffs.
  — Harriet Baskas, NBC news, 10 May 2025