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Significados de worrywart em inglês

Thinks about unfortunate things that might happen.

A person who expects the worst and looks on the downside of things.

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Examples for "pessimist"
Examples for "pessimist"
1
It is the cult of the pessimist, the gentle malice of disillusion.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
2
The pessimist always argues from a single instance to a general law.
Levels of Living / Essays on Everyday Ideals
3
The pessimist believes that forgetfulness and nothingness is the whole of man.
Mike Fletcher: A Novel
4
He was never more than a pessimist in theory at any time.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
5
This was the beginning of my acquaintance with the pessimist, Edmund Storm.
Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories
1
He, on the contrary, took a more alarmist view of the situation.
Russia
2
One last resort the would-be patriotic alarmist seeks when all others fail.
Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygien...
3
Sánchez-Bayo said the unusually strong language used in the review was not alarmist.
The Guardian
4
But I also know that General Mettlich is an alarmist; purred the Countess.
Long Live the King!
5
I am not being alarmist: I don't want it to happen.
The Guardian
1
Russia, another naysayer in the past, has been signalling some flexibility.
Reuters
2
The meditations of Martha Cochrane...the project's official naysayer...are worth any number of clever entertainments.
The new yorker
3
Cogan is not some EV-naysayer wedded to internal combustion.
Wired
4
I say to all the naysayers: The best is yet to come.
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
5
In recent years, Levitt and Dubner have attracted a number of naysayers.
The Guardian
Uso de worrywart em inglês
1
I wondered if I'd ever learn not to be such a worrywart.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
2
Béla was a nice guy, but he was a worrywart.
Cauldron of Ghosts
3
So you gotta watch out for that worrywart, workaholic facet of your personality this week.
Ebony
4
For years Laura had called her a worrywart.
Running scared
5
One worrywart in the house is enough.
Wrangling the redhead
6
I know what a worrywart you are.
The next to die
7
I'd become too much of a worrywart.
Alpine for You
8
He's just one of those worrywart motherfuckers.
Four to score
9
I can catch the last shuttle back, at eleven, and be home by midnight Okay, little worrywart?
The promise
10
Morse was a worrywart; he seemed to spend his time agonizing over things instead of actually doing them.
The new yorker
11
Too late for regrets now, worrywart.
Michael's discovery
12
She called me a worrywart.
The cardturner
13
He thought, This is silly, I'm being a worrywart, but positioned the bow close to himself just the same.
Brian's hunt
14
His grandfather always said he had the makings of a worrywart, and this pronouncement has turned out to be true.
Practical Magic
15
Ah, you're a worrywart.
A taste of magic
16
Maybe I was being a worrywart about Ric's minor physical... alterations and his randy schoolboy fixation on "branding" his girl.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
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