Crossword-Solution: PESSIMISM 9 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Pessimism n. The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is
ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; --
opposed to optimism.
Pessimism n. A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.

We have 11 clues for the answer “PESSIMISM”

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Bad ideas? 1 answer
Eeyore's attitude 1 answer
Gloomy view of life 1 answer
It "never won any battle," according to Eisenhower 1 answer
tendency to expect the worst in all things 1 answer
the feeling that things will turn out badly 1 answer
*Negative attitude 2 answers
defeatism 20 answers
disbelief 31 answers
hopelessness 32 answers
desperation 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PESSIMISM (5)

Afro-Americans viewed the war both with more enthusiasm and with more pessimism than they had felt at the outbreak of the First World War.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
The black-letter type, with rubricated initials, signified a philosophic pessimism enlightened by the conviction that in duty one might find, after all, an excuse for life and a hope for humanity.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
Her pessimism provoked me and I pretended to have the best hopes; I went so far as to say that I had a distinct presentiment that I should succeed.
The Aspern Papers Henry James 2008
For this sickness of pessimism, caused by drink, one must drink further in quest of the anodyne that John Barleycorn promises but never delivers.
John Barleycorn Jack London 2008
The pessimism of the subject attracted his youth; and he believed that the world he was about to enter was a place of pitiless woe and of darkness.
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Quotes with PESSIMISM (3)

Life... as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.
Amit Kalantri Wealth of Words
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
Brando Skyhorse The Madonnas of Echo Park
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2009).