How to Use pessimist in a Sentence

pessimist

noun
  • The pessimist would say the school can't win.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But don't listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.
    — Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.
    — Emily Trainham, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The pessimists will see the phrasing as an insult.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Yet in his own life, Prince was anything but a cynic or a pessimist.
    — Todd S. Purdum, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Melville was a pessimist, and a tragedian.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • But pessimists have been citing similar cracks for well over a year.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That downward trend has made pessimists out of the class of 2025.
    — Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • There are hints the pessimists may be correct (see Briefing).
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That is a hard thing to live with—but, the pessimist would answer, who thought life was supposed to be easy?
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • Being an optimist or a pessimist is not enough.
    — Charlie Tyrell, Variety, 28 Mar. 2026
  • There is always something for naysayers and pessimists to point at to make the case that all is not well.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • However, that’s looking at it from the pessimist’s point of view.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • What the optimists and pessimists agree on is that the business model has to change.
    — Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024
  • Keep in mind that this is the worst-case scenario offered by a relative pessimist.
    — Tyler Cowen, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Sales figures from the second quarter are now in, and the pessimists will be eating crow.
    — Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 21 July 2024
  • Nobody can be just one thing, either an optimist or a pessimist.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • For two weeks since late January, the pessimists had the upper hand.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The pessimists believe that robots will take over human jobs, putting millions out of work.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In truth, though, Scott-Morgan would have had good reason to be a pessimist.
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
  • The pessimist says that the Patriots simply aren’t good enough to go on the road and beat a tough team.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Not once does the prompt capture my familiar inner pessimist.
    — Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
  • Maybe people listen to them, but the pessimist doesn’t have followers.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Call me a pessimist, but a bathtub with an overflow drain is a tub that’s almost always half empty.
    — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019
  • Steel yourself; the pessimists will have gravitas.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The doleful pessimist would also point to the rise of nationalism.
    — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2019
  • For the pessimists, Coreweave is Lucent or Nortel.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025

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