noun

• An excessively cheerful or optimistic person.

  ‘what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The rallying dollar, sinking crude, and surging financial stocks do today create a rather inspiring backdrop for the optimists and Pollyannas.’
  • ‘Does this mean that we all should be brainless Pollyannas, cheerfully accepting whatever comes down the line?’
  • ‘Those whose cup is half full are the world's optimists, the Pollyannas and the kind of people to be avoided at all costs, particularly at parties.’
  • ‘The Pollyannas and ostriches who advocate open borders want Congress to believe three things about their pending Social Security agreement with Mexico-all of which are false.’
  • ‘But that definition blunts the refreshing insight - that Pollyannas are often ludicrous opportunists - of George DuMaurier's classic cartoon.’
  • ‘Ok, all you open-borders Pollyannas on both the left and right.’
  • ‘It was opposed by immigration Pollyannas on the left and right.’
  • ‘Yet, with each passing week, there are ever more reasons for those following the club to become Pollyannas of the first order.’
  • ‘My inner Pollyanna can be quite the jargon-spewing tub-thumper when she wants to be.’
  • ‘Insofar as this is self-delusion rather than outright deceit, he is a Pollyanna.’
  • ‘And I don't want to be a Pollyanna but it's not impossible all these changes that we are now seeing in the Middle East might some day make that more possible.’
  • ‘I'm a terrible Pollyanna and have had bad things happen that I always seem able to put a good spin on - it gets almost tedious for some people around me.’
  • ‘Maybe, I'm just a middle-aged Pollyanna, but that isn't the world I see.’
  • ‘Nor do I intend to be a Pollyanna (another word that may appear gender-biased).’
  • ‘I don't want to go back to retail - I'm not that much of a Pollyanna - but I do want to connect with more people.’
  • ‘You don't have to be a Pollyanna to think positively.’
  • ‘I'm not being romantic; I'm not being a Pollyanna about it.’
  • ‘Yet she is never a Pollyanna, eager to use the amazing accomplishment of her formal acumen to distract us from what she observes.’
  • ‘Perhaps I am being a Pollyanna but my impression is that the new editor of the New York Times is trying to swing the paper back closer to middle ground.’
  • ‘These resilient folks are commonly called optimists but if that term conjures up images of carefree Pollyannas, a psychological definition may surprise you.’