Example sentences for: self-defeating

How can you use “self-defeating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The plan is magnificently self-defeating.

  • Whether or not this attitude is morally vacant and ultimately self-defeating, as its critics charge, it's hard to see how anyone who seriously holds these views, whatever you call them, could really have had much to argue about with the America Firsters in the late 1930s.

  • The diversion will be at least partly self-defeating.

  • The NYT 's "Week in Review" has a funny compilation of stories about self-defeating behavior in job interviews.

  • (This is partly why the Merrill ads, which seem to want to be clever, end up seeming weirdly self-defeating.)


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