Pessimist
"Pessimist" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.
I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.
The student is optimistic, but his advisor is a pessimist.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
Schopenhauer was a ferocious pessimist.
Don't be such a pessimist.
It's better to be an optimist and be wrong than to be a pessimist and be right.
No one wants to kiss a pessimist.
You're such a pessimist.
I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him.
We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.
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