defeatist attitude
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdefeatistandattitude
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defeatist
adjective
uk/dɪˈfiː.tɪst/us/dɪˈfiː.t̬ɪst/
having no hope and expecting ...
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attitude
noun
uk/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofdefeatistandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Why do we adopt this hopeless,defeatistattitude?
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This is an astonishing, pessimistic anddefeatistattitude.
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What adefeatistattitudeto take towards the future.
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It would be adefeatistattitudesimply to extrapolate trends.
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That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting adefeatistattitudeto the delivery of health care.
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This would be adefeatistattitudeto adopt from the start.
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It seems to me that being unable to find the governors, or assuming that to be so, is a verydefeatistattitude.
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I should like to make it perfectly clear that we are not approaching these problems in anydefeatistattitude.
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Our reasons for this ratherdefeatistattitudeare obvious, but had better be stated.
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I do not see that we need accept thatdefeatistattitude.
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That may be true in the short period, but what adefeatistattitudeto adopt!
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If it is a fact that the railways are losing custom, why do they adopt thisdefeatistattitude?
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I do not accept that as inevitable; it is adefeatistattitude.
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That seems to me to be a completelydefeatistattitude.
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Thatdefeatistattitudesends exactly the wrong, negative message to our youth and that of the world.
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This does not strike me as a negative ordefeatistattitude.
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That seems to me to be a verydefeatistattitude.
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It is adefeatistattitudeto say that there are not enough adapted houses.
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That sort of negative,defeatistattitudewill not do if we are to make the progress which we desire.
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I suggest that that was a thoroughlydefeatistattitude.
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