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Definition of self-defeating in English: self-defeatingadjective (of an action) preventing rather than achieving a desired result; futile. courage without wariness is ultimately self-defeating the self-defeating quality of much human behaviour Example sentencesExamples - Given its findings, wouldn't that be a bit self-defeating?
- Such action is immoral, and it may also be self-defeating.
- There is something very self-defeating in being immoral on principle.
- It looks to me like this silliness is rather quickly morphing into being both destructive and self-defeating.
- Last week, I explained how violent acts of revolution would be self-defeating.
- Attempts at censorship are, in any case, self-defeating.
- It seems to me that the idea is rather self-defeating.
- Nothing could be more futile and self-defeating than such a strategy.
- If you value a higher number of automobiles on the highways and also assign high scores to clean air, it is more self-defeating criteria.
- Why engage in artistic efforts at all if they are essentially futile and self-defeating and devoid of truth?
- I suggested to him that the party's policy was self-defeating.
- We cannot give in to nihilism or self-defeating subjectivism.
- Rather than being self-defeating, successful players are their own best friends.
- Also, as we have seen in Japan and elsewhere, prosperity is self-defeating.
- Making ourselves and our allies invisible out of protest is self-defeating.
- It's sort of like an appendage, and no matter how burdensome or self-defeating it is, it's just there.
- Seldom will so much hot air have been expended by so many for such a meanly self-serving and self-defeating result.
- Like most prejudice, it's not only baseless, it's self-defeating.
- The desperate drive for selfish gains is self-defeating.
- It's rough and tumble and often self-defeating, but at least it's democratic.
Rhymesbeating, fleeting, greeting, Keating, meeting, sweeting Definition of self-defeating in US English: self-defeatingadjectiveˈˌsɛlf dəˈfidɪŋˈˌself dəˈfēdiNG (of an action or policy) unable, because of its inherent qualities, to achieve the end it is designed to bring about. （行动，政策）达不到目的的；自我拆台的，有悖初衷的，适得其反的 courage without wariness is ultimately self-defeating the self-defeating quality of much human behavior Example sentencesExamples - It's sort of like an appendage, and no matter how burdensome or self-defeating it is, it's just there.
- Nothing could be more futile and self-defeating than such a strategy.
- Attempts at censorship are, in any case, self-defeating.
- Making ourselves and our allies invisible out of protest is self-defeating.
- Last week, I explained how violent acts of revolution would be self-defeating.
- It looks to me like this silliness is rather quickly morphing into being both destructive and self-defeating.
- Like most prejudice, it's not only baseless, it's self-defeating.
- Why engage in artistic efforts at all if they are essentially futile and self-defeating and devoid of truth?
- Given its findings, wouldn't that be a bit self-defeating?
- It's rough and tumble and often self-defeating, but at least it's democratic.
- It seems to me that the idea is rather self-defeating.
- Such action is immoral, and it may also be self-defeating.
- The desperate drive for selfish gains is self-defeating.
- Rather than being self-defeating, successful players are their own best friends.
- We cannot give in to nihilism or self-defeating subjectivism.
- Also, as we have seen in Japan and elsewhere, prosperity is self-defeating.
- Seldom will so much hot air have been expended by so many for such a meanly self-serving and self-defeating result.
- There is something very self-defeating in being immoral on principle.
- If you value a higher number of automobiles on the highways and also assign high scores to clean air, it is more self-defeating criteria.
- I suggested to him that the party's policy was self-defeating.
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