Crossword-Solution: POLLYANNA
We have 32 clues for the answer “POLLYANNA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who is constantly or excessively optimistic | 1 answer |
| cheerful optimist | 1 answer |
| PERENNIAL optimist | 1 answer |
| Overly optimistic soul | 1 answer |
| Overly optimistic Disney soul | 1 answer |
| Optimistic person | 1 answer |
| Optimist, 1913 style. | 1 answer |
| One who's absurdly optimistic | 1 answer |
| Eleanor Porter heroine. | 1 answer |
| Eleanor H. Porter work | 1 answer |
| An excessively cheerful person | 1 answer |
| 1960 Hayley Mills role | 1 answer |
| "I will look on the bright side of things," said ___ | 1 answer |
| Incurable optimist | 2 answers |
| GLEEFUL person | 2 answers |
| GAY person | 2 answers |
| Optimistic one | 2 answers |
| Overoptimistic person | 3 answers |
| enthusiastic person | 25 answers |
| hoper | 27 answers |
| platonist | 30 answers |
| daydreamer | 31 answers |
| ultraist | 31 answers |
| romanticist | 33 answers |
| Believer | 34 answers |
| reformer | 35 answers |
| theorist | 36 answers |
| Optimist | 38 answers |
| Individualist | 39 answers |
| Dreamer | 39 answers |
| Enthusi-ast | 56 answers |
| Revolutionary? | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POLLYANNA (5)
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Well, after one try we had to fall back on "Pollyanna." I haven't been doing chores and running a farmhouse for fifteen years without getting some ideas about life--and even about books.
Porter Author of "Pollyanna: The Glad Book." "Miss Billy," Trade----Mark "Miss Billy's Decision," "Miss Billy--Married," "Cross Currents," "The Turn of the Tide," etc.
Pollyanna is a little girl." "A child? Well, how should I know," retorted the other, still aggrievedly.
Besides, the whole Sanatorium is still talking Pollyanna, and playing her game." "GAME!" "Yes," nodded Della, with a curious smile.
Quotes with POLLYANNA (3)
The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with "rain forest") gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with "intellectual") because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf") tales. I'm tired of the Language Police turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism) …
A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting — in short, works of art that show a world that is almost unfallen where no one experiences conflict and where sin is naughty rather than wicked.
I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, S&S, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1956–2011).