DEFEATIST in a Sentence

Learn DEFEATIST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for DEFEATIST, such as:

1. I don't approve of your defeatist attitude.
2. If you maintain your defeatist attitude, you will never succeed.
3. He failed again and again simply because he had maintained his defeatist attitude.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEFEATIST
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defeatist
 a.  attitude of one who is ready to accept defeat as a natural outcome
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Example Sentence:
1  He failed again and again simply because he had maintained his defeatist attitude.
2  I don't approve of your defeatist attitude.
3  If you maintain your defeatist attitude, you will never succeed.