defeatist
Example Sentences
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But they were not defeatist, and not despondent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The UK's never going to attract world-class talent if all we do is look down on the contest and approach it with a defeatist attitude.
From BBC • May 17, 2025
And that's to do with how we frame things, not in a defeatist way of, “Oh, isn't it terrible they've done this, so we should all be suffering?”
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024
Lying low in our green zone sounds pretty defeatist.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
“If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree.”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
Vocabulary lists containing defeatist
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