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Noun
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Mumble rap has long been critiqued for its illegibility—a quality that, as scholar Heidi Lewis has argued, naysayers have long cited to marginalize and malign hip-hop.—
James Gui,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026 -
Despite the naysayers, Johnson appears excited to be joining a championship contender with the Fever.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The proper response to this is a cynical groan.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Season 2, in the big picture, takes a cynical approach to modern relationships, asking if love is an inherently selfish endeavor within a capitalistic society, where your quality of life is so heavily influenced by what’s in your bank account.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2026
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As late as August 2007, the Federal Reserve was skeptical of such bubble talk, while Grantham was dismissed as a pessimist, a dismissal that soon proved mistaken.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Being an optimist or a pessimist is not enough.—
Charlie Tyrell,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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However, some analysts remain skeptical.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
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But that was rejected by voters, and even though 61% of voters signaled support for the millionaire tax in 2024 in a nonbinding referendum, some lawmakers were still skeptical a binding amendment would get voters' blessing.—
Ben Szalinski,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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Horowitz, for his part, is not pessimistic about where this lands.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Yet Kang is pessimistic that users will actually adopt adequate security practices given rabid AI adoption.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Negativist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negativist. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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