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
  • Your options aren’t only ‘cynical’ or ‘naïve’ The opposite of a cynic is a Pollyanna.
    Stav Ziv, CNBC, 24 June 2025
  • The breweries invite everyone to a celebration including the first opportunity to taste the new beer at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18, at Pollyanna Brewing & Distilling at 106 S. Riverside Ave.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • What the optimists did not foresee was that power could eventually shift back.
    SARAH BUSH, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
  • Projected over 162 games, that’s a 94-win clip — a total that would surprise even the most wild-eyed optimists about the potential of the Giants in the first year of Buster Posey taking over as the president of baseball operations.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The reports of his contemporaries conjure a wild cross between Don Quixote and Don Draper.
    Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances.
    Teddy Wayne June 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025

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“Micawber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Micawber. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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