Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who has a confidently positive attitude.
- noun One who tends to agree uncritically with others.
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Examples
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This negative attitude received its answer in the work of that yea-sayer, W.E. Henley.
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And the tramp asks himself as he lies full length on the earth and looks up at the stars -- are you a yea-sayer?
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This negative attitude received its answer in the work of that yea-sayer, W.E. Henley.
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Kraus quotes some yea-sayer to the effect that Zweig with his novellas had conquered all the languages of the world, and adds two words of his own: 'except one'.
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