Similar words: self-defense, self-defence, self-deprecating, self-denying, self-determining, self-determination, defeatism, defeatist. Meaning: adj. acting to defeat its own purpose.
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61 One is a reasonable response to a challenging market. The other is a self-defeating trade-off.
62 Targeting a specific mortgage rate probably would be self-defeating, the official said, because they wouldn't know how much they'd need to get a specific rate.
63 Austerity is self-defeating: when everyone tries to pay down debt at the same time, the result is depression and deflation, and debt problems grow even worse.
64 A massive educational campaign is the only thing conceivable at the moment that can help; to argue that this campaign is difficult, expensive and therefore impossible would be quite self-defeating.
65 By practicing these agreements, we can chip away at all the self-defeating beliefs we've created within us. We can recover our personal freedom.
66 The lesson of the Great Depression and World War II for Americans was that isolationism was self-defeating.
67 Talking to your doctor about your pain might therefore be self-defeating claims the researchers at Jena University in Germany as it stimulates a part of the brain known as the "pain matrix".
68 The US is the only country in the hemisphere to not have diplomatic ties with Havana,[Sentencedict.com] a position many critics consider anachronistic and self-defeating.
69 Once this is established in your thoughts/mind, the negative view of self would revolve around every sphere of your life, producing faulty assumptions and an ongoing self-defeating behavior.
70 Arbitrary limitations on our ability to access skill sets from across the globe are clearly self-defeating.
71 By practicing these agreements, we can chip away at all the self-defeating beliefs we've created within us.
72 For now, however, much of China's recent bluster turned out to be self-defeating.
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