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Noun
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Following widespread criticism of her new skin care line for children, Shay Mitchell addressed naysayers while appearing on Today last year.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
3 Mar. 2026 -
The naysayers decried the acting as overripe, sniffing instead of sniffling.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Which is a bit of a cynical play.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2026
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Jisoo is paired with Seo In-guk, who plays her cynical real-world rival.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
1 Mar. 2026
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The pessimists will see the phrasing as an insult.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The real divide in Europe’s tech debate, then, is not between optimists and pessimists, or nationalists and globalists.—
Wolfgang Oels,
Fortune,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Judge Paul Friedman appeared skeptical of government claims that the policy is necessary for national security.—
Michael Kunzelman,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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There were skeptical voices at MWC, pointing out the failures of AI projects as well as the opportunities.—
Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The misanthropic music matched the bleak unreality of the antisocial pandemic world.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
26 Feb. 2026
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By the end of the year, Alfred Tennyson, lately miserable, misanthropic, semi-broke, and semi-feral, had been made the Poet Laureate of England.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Now there is a British tendency to be slightly defeatist.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The mood just feels a little defeatist right now.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Citrini was far from the only voice prophesying such a pessimistic future.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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The thought, the incredibly pessimistic thought, is that those who bought the debt of too many high-risk enterprise software companies may not make it because of the amazing AI products out there now, even as the portfolio companies of the two biggest private equity firms are about AI.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Negativist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negativist. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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