defeatist|defeatists in English

noun

[de'feat·ist || -tɪst]

one resigned to failure or defeat

Use "defeatist|defeatists" in a sentence

1. To criticize the plan is defeatist!

2. It is a horribly defeatist slogan.

3. He's got such a defeatist attitude.

4. Being defeatist will get us nowhere.

5. He is a pessimist and a defeatist.

6. I don't approve of your defeatist attitude.

7. Being a bit defeatist, aren't you, McCormack?

8. I can't believe it - you're such a defeatist!

9. Some will argue that defining success down is defeatist.

10. What a sceptical or defeatist system needs is motivation.

11. There is no point going out there with a defeatist attitude.

12. Yet it would be wrong to end this chapter on a defeatist note.

13. He failed again and again simply Because he had maintained his defeatist attitude.

14. Elements in the Norwegian cabinet considered General Laake to be a defeatist.

15. He failed again and again simply because he had maintained his defeatist attitude.

16. How defeatist does the imitation - Gothic interior appear, once this has been realized.

17. If these defeatist sentiments seize us, happiness will be far away from us.

18. He had been assailed as a coward and a defeatist by his own friends.

19. His self - confidence was gradually returning and he was managing to shake off his defeatist mood.

20. This temporary development fostered both revisionist and defeatist views of the proletarian revolution in the imperialist countries.

21. 15 Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.

22. That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.

23. In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.