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Definition of Doomsayer
1. Noun. One who makes dire predictions about the future; one who predicts doom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doomsayer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doomsayer
Literary usage of Doomsayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Helping Your Child Get Ready for School: With Activities for Children from by Nancy Paulu (1992)
"If you think that I am simply being a doomsayer, then tell me why we continue to
purchase increasing amounts of crude oil from Iraq, the country that caused ..."
2. State of the Petroleum Industry: Congressional Hearing edited by Frank H. Murkowski (2000)
"If you think that I am simply being a doomsayer, then tell me why we continue to
purchase increasing amounts of crude oil from Iraq, the country that caused ..."
3. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"Nobody, no doomsayer on record, whether coming from a literate perspective or
already integrated in the pragmatics of the civilization of illiteracy, ..."
4. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"... 1990. told the Washington Post that he would bet "any prominent doomsayer"
$100000 that by any material measure, living standards would only improve. ..."
5. The Kassandra Complex by Murray Lawrence, Lawrence Murray (2003)
"... its Damascene Guardians would have considered him the kind of doomsayer ever
preaching outside the church, itinerants warning about the coming of the ..."
6. Russian Roulette: Among Other Things by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"... was no perennial “doomsayer” but a professional with an international financial
and legal reputation at stake. He simply stated that certain things were ..."
7. Vision 2020: The Role of Coal in U.S. Energy Strategy by Steven F. Leer, Girard F. Anderson (1998)
"... coal, could be clumsily erased from the future in the last fifteen years of
the Secretary's interest. I'm not a doomsayer, but we're ..."
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