oversanguine

The inventor, the promoter, the salesman, and the oversanguine manager do not always foresee such things.

Industrial Progress and Human Economics James Hartness

He is foolishly oversanguine who predicts an easy victory over such a people, intrenched amidst mountains and hills.

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

Already American merchants have established themselves at the mouth of the Amoor, and, unless Mr. Collins is oversanguine, a great trade is to spring up between the Californians and their opposite neighbors on the eastern coast of Asia.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

Suppose you are by nature rather oversanguine or overdespondent, and you make no genuine attempt to evolve that nature into poise.

Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter

Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform.

The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform.

The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

I think that those are oversanguine who believe that there will be no falling back.

Postscript 1906

It follows that the policy of the North in raising and organising its armies had at first to be a policy evolved between numerous independent authorities which never met and were held together by a somewhat ignorant public opinion, sometimes much depressed and sometimes, which was worse, oversanguine.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

Alan was not oversanguine, although Fred Skane declared Bandmaster's task was easier than The Duke's.

The Rider in Khaki A Novel Nat Gould 1888