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defeatist

/dih-fee-tist/US // dɪˈfi tɪst //

失败主义者,失败主义者,失败者,失败论者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism.
    • : an advocate or follower of defeatism as a public policy.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by defeatism.

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Examples

  • It is a rotten form of weakness, a defeatist and pacifist attitude that only can mean defeat.

  • Unfortunately, this sort of defeatist measure was recently proposed in the House of Representatives.

  • If anything is hopeless—and breeds hopelessness—it is this defeatist approach.

  • And the Republican candidates are indeed attacking him as defeatist and weak.

  • I will take her any day over the “educated class,” the bureaucratic mollusks and the defeatist sad sacks in Washington.

  • In fact, he routinely refers to the traditional Muslim clergy as “imams of infidelity,” “defeatist imams,” or “hypocrite imams.”

  • Moreover, now that I had had time to meditate upon it, I was more than ever defeatist about this scheme of Jeeves's.

  • But do you honestly think I could entertain such a defeatist notion for one instant?

  • Maybe it was being defeatist, yet he had to make sure that they had a way off this planet if the mission failed.

  • "You can't afford to get defeatist about this, Rod," Biddington went on.

  • Since April sixth insidious defeatist propaganda had permeated the mass of the people.