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Pollyannish

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    irrepressibly or excessively optimistic; capable of seeing good in anyone derogatory

    "[…] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Pollyannish. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

From Pollyanna + -ish.

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