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optimistically

adv. in an optimistic manner

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optimistically

adv. with optimism; in an optimistic manner; "`We have a good chance of winning,' he exclaimed optimistically" [ant: pessimistically]

Usage examples of "optimistically".

But all that I have described is there--aggressively, blusteringly, optimistically there--and is going most confidently on.

In the street outside, two kids in bomber jackets, neither of them above ten years old, and both wearing nearly-new Nike trainers that had come down the chimney with Santa, were dismantling a black and silver mountain bike whose owner had optimistically left it chained to a parking meter.

A few amnesiatic shoppers remorselessly cruised the aisles, dumping toilet tissue, canned dog food, cereals and breads and optimistically dolphin-safe tuna into their carts.

There were some hoary old willows here, and the river flowed, or at any rate moved, in a horseshoe bend around a small newt-haunted meadow known rather optimistically as Wizards Pleasaunce.

It seemed to him that Simes tended to over-correct and that the Captain was somewhat optimistically under-correcting, but neither was so far out as to endanger the ship.

The monstrous glass-and-steel structures did not at all resemble the pearly gates of heaven she had so optimistically envisioned.

They formed a supply line back to the vine world to reequip ships that, it was optimistically hoped, would expend all of their sap shells destroying Khieevi and their vessels.

Rhodan said optimistically and gave a few short orders on the intercom.

Every clear day he set off on foot, not in his car, striding optimistically along in his single-breasted suit, beanpole in shape because the coat and trousers were so unnaturally and senselessly tight.

He felt somewhat cheered when he was able with his writing implement and a thumb to produce a replica of the imprint of his seal--extremely crude, yet recognizable, he decided optimistically.