Unfortunately, this sort of defeatist measure was recently proposed in the House of Representatives.
If anything is hopeless—and breeds hopelessness—it is this defeatist approach.
And the Republican candidates are indeed attacking him as defeatist and weak.
I will take her any day over the “educated class,” the bureaucratic mollusks and the defeatist sad sacks in Washington.
In fact, he routinely refers to the traditional Muslim clergy as “imams of infidelity,” “defeatist imams,” or “hypocrite imams.”
"You can't afford to get defeatist about this, Rod," Biddington went on.
Socialist and defeatist writers took advantage of this state of affairs.
The pacifists and "defeatist" Socialists represented a minority.
But while the case is still in progress, the "defeatist" meets his fate from the pistol bullet of a fanatic.
Moreover, now that I had had time to meditate upon it, I was more than ever defeatist about this scheme of Jeeves's.
