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Meanings of too sanguine in English

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Usage of too sanguine in English
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Their expectation of immediate advantage to the reformation cause was too sanguine.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Re...
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These materials aren't proper and I'm none too sanguine about that braze.
Skin Game
3
For my own part, however, I was not too sanguine of success.
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love
4
Do not be too sanguine that she will come up with us.
Paddy Finn
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I say only half, because I don't want to be too sanguine.
The Stark Munro Letters / Being series of twelve letters written...
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We were dazzled by globalisation and too sanguine about its price.
BBC
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However, Janice Day was too sanguine to be made melancholy by these affairs.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
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Nevertheless, we may fitly sympathise with those who entertain these too sanguine hopes.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects / Everyman's Library
9
But Harry was not too sanguine, although he kept his thoughts to himself.
The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand
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The idea is to keep the owner from becoming too sanguine over the prospects.
Love Conquers All
11
The expectations of improvement in Ireland, which were entertained in England, were too sanguine.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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However, they must not be too sanguine about the result.
Reviews
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Dingwall is too sanguine, but it gives me hope to hear YOU say so.
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
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It appeared now, however, that he had been too sanguine.
The Little Warrior
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Master Gridley threw cold water on the young man's too sanguine anticipations of success.
The Guardian Angel
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Don't be too sanguine, Casti; that's another of your faults.
The Unclassed
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Too sanguine through the time
Too sanguine across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common