Crossword-Solution: DEFEATISM
We have 22 clues for the answer “DEFEATISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pessimistic resignation | 1 answer |
| pessimism | 10 answers |
| deterrence | 10 answers |
| fearfulness | 12 answers |
| fears | 15 answers |
| willies | 18 answers |
| gooseflesh | 18 answers |
| Butterflies | 19 answers |
| Eyesore | 23 answers |
| hopelessness | 32 answers |
| Needles | 32 answers |
| Stampede? | 47 answers |
| despondency | 50 answers |
| Dejection | 58 answers |
| desperation | 61 answers |
| Panic | 61 answers |
| Dismay. | 63 answers |
| despair | 71 answers |
| Flight | 71 answers |
| funk | 72 answers |
| Inaction | 75 answers |
| flutter | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFEATISM (5)
Some in our midst have sought to instill a feeling of fear and defeatism in the minds of the American people about this problem.
Yet there is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success, and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure.
Never in our lifetime has such a concerted campaign of defeatism been thrown at the heads of the President and the Senators and Congressmen as in the case of this Seventy-Fifth Congress.
Bolshevism and its ally, defeatism, were far more influential in the ranks of the soldiers than in those of the workers in the factories.
But the Bolsheviki were meanwhile holding mass meetings among the troops, preaching defeatism and surrender and urging the soldiers not to obey the orders of "bourgeois" officers.
Quotes with DEFEATISM (3)
Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the world is itself crippled by resignation before reality, and becomes a defeatism of reason after the transformation of the world failed. It guarantees no place from which theory as such could be concretely convicted of the anachronism, which then as now it is suspected of. Perhaps the interpretation which promised the …
For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, "Because they're scared." I used to suspect that children's defeatism had something to do with their bad work in school, but I thought I could clear it away with hearty cries of "Onward! You can do it!" What I now see for the first time is the mechanism by which fear destroys intelligence, the way it affects a child's whole way of looking at, thinking about, …
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).