Citations:skeptimistic

English citations of skeptimistic

Adjective: "both skeptical and optimistic at once"

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• 1997 May 18, Troy Espiritu, “Neurotic Chow Chow, HELP!!!!”, in rec.pets.dogs.behavior‎^[1] (Usenet):

  I am very skeptimistic about valium for the dog.

• 2010 — Evervette Surgenor, "Cautiously skeptimistic: Can we revamp Canadian education?", The Globe and Mail, 28 December 2010:

  But history is full of examples that show people don't change until disaster strikes. So who knows. Perhaps in this era of information and knowledge, we just might find the wisdom to shape a different historical outcome. Until then, I remain cautiously skeptimistic.

• 2011 — Ray Hagar, "Lawmakers hear about plight of unemployed construction workers", Reno Gazette-Journal, 9 February 2011:

  Sen. John Lee, D-North Las Vegas, said he was "skeptimistic," both optimistic and skeptical, of any government plan that could bring back the construction industry.