"Pollyannaish" meaning in English

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          "text": "Accordingly the objection “Is not optimalism simply too Pollyanna-ish to be plausible?” can be met effectively.",
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          "ref": "2012 December 25, Victor Mair, “Chinese character of the year: mèng 梦 (‘dream’)”, in Language Log",
          "text": "Even long before this choice of character of the year was made, critics were complaining about the [Chinese] government’s Pollyannaish touting of mèng 梦, saying that the dreams of most people were in vain.",
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          "text": "If that sounds a little bit Pollyannaish, it’s because Schmidhuber’s own experience[…]must have taught him that competition can create losers as well as winners.",
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          "text": "On this basis, Bridle argues, it’s possible to conceive of a new kind of “guardianship” of our frazzled planet and its poisoned wells, one in which we all work together. This seems Pollyanna-ish as much as Panglossian to me […]",
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        "(derogatory) Unreasonably optimistic."
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          "sense": "unreasonably optimistic",
          "word": "Milchmädchen-"
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          "sense": "unreasonably optimistic",
          "word": "demasiado optimista"
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