Defeatist in a sentence

As a corollary, he missed no opportunity to accuse Hunt of being “a defeatist”, “totally defeatist”, and, by implication, the grey inheritor of Theresa May’s “managerialist approach”.

I don't want to sound defeatist, but almost made peace with it at the beginning," Luton manager Rob Edwards said.

Instead Starmer argues he can get away from the “defeatist” levers of tax and spend and rely on growth — just like ill-fated Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss tried to do.

Guru Dutt’s self-defeatist masterpiece, Pyaasa set the gold standard for the ‘wallowing in self-misery’ genre.

I think if you go into the season with a defeatist attitude, you can’t expect to be successful.

Such defeatist talk by Cripps was occurring contemporaneously with Churchill trying to coax Stalin to form a “Balkan front” against Hitler through a Soviet alliance with Yugoslavia and Greece.

But Admiral Darlan, formerly head of the French Navy, was now a part of the new defeatist government, its minister of marine.

But given how much the web has changed in the past 30 years, it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it can’t be changed for the better in the next 30.

Lumping FaceApp with U.S. companies is nonsensical — Americans have no legal means to sue a Russian company if it abuses their data, for one — and such statements may breed a defeatist mood that people feel around keeping their personal data secure.

We seem to have unfortunately internalized the language of the culture setters that created “martyrs” and “heroes” as much as it did with “patriots”, “defeatist”, “fifth columnist” “hasus” or “jasus” and “kebilawi”.

Environmental groups say the provision appears to target polar bears, and takes a defeatist attitude toward species threatened by climate change.

Churchill felt compelled to complain again when the Duke gave a "defeatist" interview.

Roth's work claimed that most Jews involved in the war were only taking part as profiteers and spies, whilst he also blamed Jewish officers for fostering a defeatist mentality which impacted negatively on their soldiers.

This policy appeared defeatist to many who believed that the best defense is a good offense.

Yet while seemingly defeatist in tone, the humanity of the characters shines through in their persistence despite the obstacles.