How to Use defeatism in a Sentence

defeatism

noun

• We must not give in to defeatism. We must be optimistic.
• But episode 9 is not to end on such a note of defeatism.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 Oct. 2022
• Both the defiance and the defeatism are integral to Crane.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• McConnell’s defeatism is both a soporific for the Right and a stimulant for the Left.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 10 July 2017
• Eleven days ago a ligament in his left knee sprained and a certain kind of Kansas fan may have gone defeatism.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 17 Mar. 2018
• The teens in Parkland haven’t been part of the political discussion and don’t show that same defeatism.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• What played a bigger role in the tragedy in Afghanistan, U.S. enabling of corruption or media defeatism?
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 26 Aug. 2021
• The film gives a clear nod to the nervousness that the women are experiencing, but never falls in the cracks of defeatism or melancholy.
  — The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
• That task will be much harder if Americans approach the Middle East in a spirit of defeatism.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 3 May 2021
• Getting the team to believe in itself, mainly when its history is one of defeat and defeatism, takes work.
  — John Baldoni, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• This could lead to defeatism, because the problem is perceived as being out of control and unsolvable.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
• Louisville AD Vince Tyra, meanwhile, declined defeatism.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 9 Aug. 2020
• Eventually, though, Blum began to give in to defeatism.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 16 July 2018
• Third, while defeatism is dire for voter turnout, so too can overconfidence.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2018
• But at the same time, de Gaulle’s tale is a succinct account of France’s blindness and defeatism that bears similarities to the current crisis.
  — John R. MacArthur, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Mejia said that if Maduro does win on Sunday, the opposition needs to redouble its efforts to build a broad coalition and push back against defeatism.
  — Jim Wyss and Antonio Maria Delgado, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
• This is defeatism that is both irrational and dangerous.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
• This is defeatism that is both irrational and dangerous.
  — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
• Back then, the key Ukrainian port of Mariupol had just fallen, Ukraine was covered in mud, and Western defeatism was everywhere.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• But a culture of mass surveillance defeatism has helped to pave the way for increasingly invasive tech.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2018
• Schools should offer their student-athletes hope, not crushing defeatism year after year.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Glendale News-Press, 3 Nov. 2017
• Distress and defeatism from the narrative that absolutely no progress has been made around climate change are rampant.
  — Quora, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Sam’s feelings of defeatism and applaud his ultimate success.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• Its solution to the defeatism of our modern climate is the fantasy of the triumphant individual.
  — Yussef Cole, Wired, 18 Dec. 2021
• The Grammys rubber-stamp this defeatism as another means of social division.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
• Ella’s premature defeatism often alarmed Nina; shouldn’t a child have a childlike sense of justice, and a childlike optimism?
  — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• The committee and its work were far from apolitical, and yet to dismiss the report as merely political would be a perilous act of resignation and defeatism.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• That line of thinking, in turn, leads to withering retorts about defeatism, cynicism and the need to educate audiences, and so on and so on, rinse, repeat, ad nauseam, ad infinitum, etc.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2019
• For too long, extremists passing as mainstream have used cocktails of lies and fear laced with bigotry to lull Americans into a normalized and dangerous defeatism.
  — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
• If nothing is done, realism and defeatism—the two often travel together—could play decisively to the regime’s advantage.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024