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Pangloss

[ US /ˈpænˌɡɫɑs, ˈpæŋˌɡɫɑs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire

How To Use Pangloss In A Sentence

  • Rick Gershman ...but an intense interest in all tacos? pangloss have you SEEN zach and miri make a porno? kevin smith is not a good writer, he got lucky with clerks. i am done with his films. Kevin Smith Wants to Make Hockey Movie - Hit Somebody | /Film
  • But Pangloss says this will only happen if he has money because being bled and having an enema require payment.
  • The book is a curious mixture of the Panglossian - the US as a kindly elephant, centre of the global ecosystem - and the hard-headedly critical.
  • With the exception of Pangloss, the three other heretics are burned at the stake.
  • I say this not out of any kind of Panglossian complacency. Biennial Sir Arthur Tange Lecture in Australian Diplomacy
  • His appointment, along with ex-Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii as a top lieutenant, underscores Mr. Kan's apparent push to put unpalatable policies in front of voters, after years of Panglossian political platforms by both his party and the other guys. Japan's New Deficit Hawk, Deflation Dove
  • Yet feminism is regarded by all parties as a philosophy based on Panglossian fortune-cookie dictums.
  • If it's not immediately clear, the headline writer uses "Panglossian" to say the opposite of what it means. W.C. Varones
  • Bonus points to Dr. Chen for getting the word "Panglossian" into a news article. April 13th, 2009
  • After having been so heartily kicked, flogged, and bastinadoed; after having been in an earthquake; having seen Doctor Pangloss once hanged, and very lately burned; after having been outraged by Candide
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