negativistic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for negativistic
Adjective
  • Drafted in the first round out of Texas Tech in 2017—a move that many fans were initially skeptical of—Mahomes only saw a few spot appearances before eventually taking over as the Chiefs’ starting quarterback.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The Pfizer exec played a critical role in helping Mamdani connect with New York's skeptical business community.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Throw away anything that looks suspicious.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Journalists tend to be the type of people who run toward suspicious scenes.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Many chief financial officers are investing in AI while still taking a measured approach—one that may seem overly cautious from the perspective of chief information and technology officers.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Snow showers throughout the week; travelers advised to remain cautious due to potential slick conditions.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Origin of the Moscow Mule The Moscow Mule has an incredulous origin story.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The prospect of losing at least $170 million in annual revenue would be taken much more seriously than angry, incredulous letters to the editor.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This careful tiptoeing is probably because the scissor artwork was never meant to be sold at a wider scale.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 24 Oct. 2025
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Talk of a solution—of two states, of a confederation, of nearly any prospect for a secure and free mode of coexistence—has long been dismissed as either an ingenuous assertion of faith or a cynical pantomime, an empty gesture toward a future no one expects to see.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Negativistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/negativistic. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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