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Meanings of defeatism in English
Usage of defeatism in English
1
Cadorna said the army was verminous with defeatism, and urged drastic steps.
2
Also a picture of future ads, packed with gloom, defeatism and frustration.
3
In 1933 we met a problem of real fear and real defeatism.
4
In these circumstances, universal energy is a recipe for defeatism and paranoia.
5
I saw defeatism from a few Australians after they lost the toss.
6
In a sense Churchill can be forgiven his unusual and uncharacteristic defeatism.
7
But we will not surrender to the forces of pessimism and defeatism.
8
But to recover this particular building would not be a statement of defeatism.
9
The army was demoralized and saturated with the defeatism preached by the Porazhentsi.
10
Once the fighting begins, I will not tolerate doubt and defeatism.
11
To me, such defeatism was not so much wrong as absurd.
12
There's a creeping mood of aesthetic defeatism about the whole project.
13
One of the troubles in dealing with any problem is routing defeatism and hopelessness.
14
But we will not surrender to the forces of pessimism and defeatism, he said.
15
Positivism lifts, defeatism confirms inner fears, but Watson is generally upbeat, whatever the circumstances.
16
It's your kind of defeatism that's brought us to this.
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