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Example sentences for "defeatist"

Lexicographically close words:
defaut; defaute; defeat; defeated; defeating; defeats; defecate; defecated; defecation; defect
  1. Such feelings might have counteracted all international formulas sown by the enemy on the fertile soil of the Defeatist tendencies of the Socialistic Party.

  2. The responsible organs of the Democracy, the majority of whom had Defeatist tendencies, tried correspondingly to influence the masses.

  3. Paragraph 6 stipulates that all literature should be delivered to the addressees, and the Army was flooded with criminal Bolshevik and Defeatist literature.

  4. Will the Russian people remain steadfast, or will the Defeatist tendencies prevail?

  5. Socialist and defeatist writers took advantage of this state of affairs.

  6. The former were designed to cheer on the Filipinos; the latter, to depress the Americans with the defeatist messages inside the cards.

  7. The "New British Broadcasting Company" transmitted defeatist propaganda with a superficial anti-German tone.

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

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

  10. The defeatist propaganda started up again, the word was spread that the Americans were coming too slowly and that in France they were to be seen everywhere but at the front.

  11. But we had a growing number of strikes and a wide-spread defeatist campaign in the rear to contend with.

  12. And when reference is made to the force of ideas--Nationalist or Socialist or Revolutionary--a power which we all admit by our panic fears of defeatist or Red Propaganda, it is necessary to keep in mind the kind of force that is meant.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defeatist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cynic; cynical; defeatist; dismal; gloomy; negative; nihilistic; pessimist; pessimistic