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  • Excessively optimistic

    January 9, 2009

  • Poll or survey showing that things are too good *not* to be true, irrespective of margin of error

    January 9, 2009

  • Probably you're thinking of Pollyannaish, from the name Pollyanna, an unfailingly optimistic character in the children's books of Eleanor Hodgman Porter and the Disney movies based on them.

    January 10, 2009