pyrrhic in English

noun

1

a metrical foot of two short or unaccented syllables.

adjective

1

(of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.

Unless that is done, any military success in Afghanistan will be a pyrrhic victory.

2

written in or based on pyrrhic measure.

Use "pyrrhic" in a sentence

1. Sadly, it was a pyrrhic victory.

2. I am training him in the Pyrrhic method.

3. It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.

4. They get excited about their Pyrrhic victory.

5. The current proposal could prove pyrrhic victory, however.

6. This is a Pyrrhic victory for Basildon council.

7. It was a pyrrhic victory for both sides.

8. Inflation seemed like a pyrrhic victory, almost a tease.

9. But man is not over, consider people are most pyrrhic victory.

10. This is why I say this is a Pyrrhic victory.

11. Barack Obama signs health care bill amid warnings of Pyrrhic victory.

12. I know , just because it was a Pyrrhic victory for them.

13. Decisive victory Strategic victory Pyrrhic victory Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001).

14. My only point is that it has been a Pyrrhic victory.

15. But the smoke of those Pyrrhic triumphs cleared to reveal America in trouble.

16. Too often the leadership's victories over the left have had an unsavoury, pyrrhic quality.

17. The triumph of postmodernism, at least in the west, has been a Pyrrhic victory.

18. If we vanquish credit as the villain behind our downturn, the victory may be Pyrrhic.

19. If this constituted defeat for Malcolm McLaren, it was, perhaps, only a pyrrhic victory for Richard Branson.

20. My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory.

21. Our winning the opening game was a Pyrrhic victory, as our leading scorer was seriously injured.

22. 14 If we vanquish credit as the villain behind our downturn, the victory may be Pyrrhic.

23. I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.

24. His victory had been a Pyrrhic one, costing too much in the lost friendship of the men.

25. A total win for one side in any negotiation is just wrong because it's almost always a pyrrhic victory.

26. But it was all too little to make me feel really good about my reporter's Pyrrhic victory of scoring a rare exclusive.

27. The characteristic Anacreontic lines consist of a pyrrhic foot, two trochees, and a spondee, for which the nearest regular English counterpart would be trochaic tetrameter.)

28. Federalists who sought integration by pursuing first a grandiose constitution and then, by hook or by crook, the Lisbon treaty have won a Pyrrhic victory.

29. Second, with these policies growing with a vengeance, any Western victory on the renminbi would be pyrrhic as Western firms could be subject to greater murky protectionism by the Chinese authorities.

30. "At this general assembly of Coxcombs, fops and the world's greatest dunces, Theobald, an unsuccessful writer, is crowned 'Chief of the Dunces'." Fame Ndongo's Pyrrhic Victory; Peterkins Manyong; The Post (Buea, Cameroon); Jan 16, 2007