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Answer for the clue "Pessimistic on Wall Street ", 7 letters:
bearish

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Word definitions for bearish in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"grumpy, surly," 1744, from bear (n.) + -ish . Related: Bearishly ; bearishness .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. expecting prices to fall

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy. 2 (context stock market English) Characterized by falling share prices.

Usage examples of bearish.

Priscilla queried, watching the pair of bearish mutations start to convey Milly Odum to the center of the clearing.

He was even more rumpled and bearish seeming than he had been the previous night, wider than the door he stood before and hunched over like some sodden jungle shrub.

He hated the way the bearish Tracker looked at him, as if seeing right through skin and bone.

Almost immediately Horner Dees was running beside him, his bearish form laboring from the strain.

He paused deliberately, his bearish frame shifting, changing his weight from one foot to the other.

Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.

Feather stepped to the left, intending to seek a way around the ravine, when a chilling sound wafted down from overhead, the sound of deep, guttural laughter, echoing from wall to wall, mocking him, making him realize the bearish figures had just been toying with him.

Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish Figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.

Captain Hudson, sober, is a rough, bearish seaman, with a quick, experienced eye, that takes in every rope in the ship, as he walks up and down his quarter-deck.

I watched Alfonse reassert his bearish presence with a shoulder-rolling gesture.

Often when I have got stupid and bearish from loneliness, I wish I could talk to some one so happily constituted.

The Russians are supposed to be dour and bearish people who favour despots, or the Irish are charming dodgers.

It was Rumford of the Public Safety Commission, bearish and bleary-eyed after his Earth-Moon flight.

His large bearish frame seemed out of place in the fine formal attire.

YOUR hand can cherish, While churlish and bearish The verse-jingle chimes.