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- noun Plural form of
doom-and-gloomer .
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Examples
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So rather than meaning the end of the euro or the E.U., as some doom-and-gloomers have predicted, the crisis may have the opposite effect.
Steven Hill: The Silver Lining of the Greek Debt Crisis 2010
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So rather than meaning the end of the euro or the E.U., as some doom-and-gloomers have predicted, the crisis may have the opposite effect.
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Especially in these times, we need others to lift us up, to support us in being courageous and free, not doom-and-gloomers who lead the way toward depression.
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Now that the data from NASA of all places has been demonstrated to be unreliable, I wonder if Al Gore and his coterie of Hollywood doom-and-gloomers will ease up a bit in their campaign to stifle debate about “global warming.”
Waldo Jaquith - Australia’s test case for measuring climatological change. 2007
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Actually, the really amusing thing is when you doom-and-gloomers finish watching An Inconvenient Truth and reading a chapter from Earth in the Balance, you hop on the Internet (which St. Al invented!) and label others “zombies” without even a hint of irony.
Waldo Jaquith - Republican candidates embrace environmentalism. 2007
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He takes issue with the doom-and-gloomers who peddle pessimism porn and Depression lust.
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Ian Bremmer is one of the great doom-and-gloomers of the economy these days.
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A sensible voice in the gabbling noise of bookish doom-and-gloomers:
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With all the turmoil in housing and credit markets, you might think the doom-and-gloomers got the upper hand.
Bears Can Growl, 2007
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Connor yelled from within the gathered doom-and-gloomers.
Monolith John Passarella 2004
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