Search for crossword answers and clues
Expecting good results
Answer for the clue "Expecting good results ", 8 letters:
sanguine
Alternative clues for the word sanguine
Word definitions for sanguine in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB less ▪ His close colleagues were rather less sanguine in private. ▪ But officials in Nevada were less sanguine . ▪ Under less sanguine circumstances, loans are advanced more cautiously. ▪ A University of Michigan ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanguine \San"guine\, a. [F. sanguin, L. sanguineus, fr. sanguis blood. Cf. Sanguineous .] Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. --Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. --Milton. Characterized by abundance ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sanguine is a stain , or non-standard tincture in heraldry , of a blood-red colour. In the past it was sometimes taken to be equivalent to murrey , but they are now considered two distinct tinctures. It is a brownish red, the colour of arterial blood . ...
Usage examples of sanguine.
His expression, e regio sanguine ortos, credunt, betrays, however, some doubt or suspicion.
Sanguine Mountain rived the earth, Hilel and his horse-traders had selected a brushy, steep-sided ravine and blocked the ends with stumps and slash.
But, on the first reverses of hope in the progress of French liberty, the sanguine eagerness for good overleaped the solution of these questions, and for a time extinguished itself in the unexpectedness of their result.
And then, yielding to meditations of future success, partaking strongly of the inexperienced and sanguine temperament of the soliloquist, Clarence passed the hours till his pillow summoned him to dreams no less ardent and perhaps no less unreal.
I was a small boy and my dear stepmother Shonda yet lived, he was a noble Crown Prince, a loving husband and father, and a man of sanguine and kindly spirit.
The lady had been bred in the country, was unacquainted with the world, and of a very sanguine disposition, which her short trial of matrimony had not served to cool.
Miss Kusanagi-Jones was less sanguine about the unescorted trip, arguing with Katherinessen in low tones.
Lord Ulswater,--of high and ancient birth, of great wealth, young, unexceptionable in person and character, and warmly attached to you, it would be impossible even for the sanguine heart of a parent to ask for you a more eligible match.
Court to the American cause was as favorable as it had ever been, and Adams came away from these initial discussions feeling even more sanguine.
The comparative contentment of the great Sheikh at this moment, her silence, and the sudden departure of Fakredeen, induced Baroni to believe that there was yet something on the cards, and, being of a sanguine disposition, he sincerely encouraged his master, who, however, did not appear to be very desponding.
Pemulis is looking oddly sanguine and confident after a couple minutes futzing with the cans of water, rinsing out the oral cavity and so on.
Phyllis Dartmoor, had initially been as hostile toward the group as the council members, but after a short flurry of fruitless efforts to force the Voyagers out of town, she had become surprisingly sanguine about the situation.
The tragic deaths of Galerius and Maximin soon gratified the resentment, and fulfilled the sanguine expectations, of the Christians.
The recovery of Denbigh was as rapid as the most sanguine expectation of his friends could hope for, and in ten days he left his bed, and would sit an hour or two at a time in his dressing-room, where Mrs.
It proved to be the harem of the Governor of Hamadan, and if for a moment the too sanguine fancy of the captor experienced a passing pang of disappointment, the prize at least obtained, as we have seen, the freedom and security of his dear though distant friends.