Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a rosy color.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a rose color
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Examples
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Without attempting to lower some Pollyannaish veil or rosy-colored lens on a tragedy in which a score of people were killed and maimed, there are positive aspects to the story which bear pointing out.
Chris Weigant: Heroism Chris Weigant 2011
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Without attempting to lower some Pollyannaish veil or rosy-colored lens on a tragedy in which a score of people were killed and maimed, there are positive aspects to the story which bear pointing out.
Chris Weigant: Heroism Chris Weigant 2011
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Without attempting to lower some Pollyannaish veil or rosy-colored lens on a tragedy in which a score of people were killed and maimed, there are positive aspects to the story which bear pointing out.
Chris Weigant: Heroism Chris Weigant 2011
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She had close to no cleavage at all, but her nipples were erect, like two rosy-colored buttons.
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While some would gladly have sent their opponents to the nearest guillotine, most operated on the rosy-colored assumption that sweet reason would be sufficient in and of itself to usher in a kinder, gentler millennium.
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Contrary to the rosy-colored projections of the incorrigible optimists, whose ranks include Dubya himself, the price will not be rock-bottom or what those assets are truly worth (in many cases, there may not be a difference).
No Magic Potion Alan Abelson 2008
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He was just like those sloe-eyed princes in the old stories, who rode out of the desert and kidnapped pining dark maidens and took them to palaces built of rosy-colored stone in the midst of a beautiful oasis.
Spirit Gate 2006
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LEVIN: Well, the bottom line is that that assessment of the vice president is a rosy-colored scenario just the way going into Iraq was rose-colored.
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His mind even turned to rosy-colored dreams of a tender reconciliation inside the camel — there hidden away from all the world ....
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We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.
The Great Gatsby 2003
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