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
  • The politics of Pollyanna, brought to you by the things-have-never-been-better crowd.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Pope and Sarah go into catacombs beneath an old church in search of the treasure, but are forced to hide among the rats when Lightner (Rigo Sanchez) and his boss Dalia (Pollyanna McIntosh) show up and grab a mysterious scroll that is most likely a map.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Green, an excitable optimist, isn’t particularly concerned about the future.
    Hank Tucker, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Where an optimist might sit and wait for a bright future to arrive, a hopeful person pulls themselves towards it, often through great effort.
    Jamil Zaki, TIME, 23 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • And once again, our two heroes — recast as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza tilting at wind turbines — struggle to reconcile the myths that men write for themselves with the realities that life is actually willing to offer them.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The program features timeless classics, such as The Dying Swan, Don Quixote, and Giselle.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024

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“Micawber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Micawber. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.

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