Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being wishful; longing.
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- noun The state or quality of being
wishful ; sometimes specificallywishful thinking
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- noun an unrealistic yearning
Etymologies
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Examples
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I guess it was said more in wishfulness than in truth.
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I guess it was said more in wishfulness than in truth.
SeeLight: 2007
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With Germany reeling from Alamein and Stalingrad, it was prone to that "wishfulness" and "yesmanship" that are the cardinal sins of counter-deception.
Operation Mincemeat, Operation Heartbreak, and The Man Who Never Was 2010
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The Chilcot inquiry has amply demonstrated the role of "wishfulness" and "yesmanship" in the decision to go to war.
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This is where this otherwise admirably researched report slips into wishfulness.
Robert Lenzner: It's The Corruption, Stupid Robert Lenzner 2011
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This is where this otherwise admirably researched report slips into wishfulness.
Robert Lenzner: It's The Corruption, Stupid Robert Lenzner 2011
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This is where this otherwise admirably researched report slips into wishfulness.
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The tone was can-do optimistic, avoiding the wishfulness and idealized trappings that so often seem delusional in retrospect in favor of pragmatism.
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The tone was can-do optimistic, avoiding the wishfulness and idealized trappings that so often seem delusional in retrospect in favor of pragmatism.
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It was in his voice and face, a bitter wishfulness, and I understood of course that he was telling me things, true or not, only because I was here, we were both here, in isolation, drinking.
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