Crossword-Solution: DEFEATIST
We have 29 clues for the answer “DEFEATIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Person not hesitant to throw in the towel | 1 answer |
| One resigned to reverses | 1 answer |
| DIFFIDENT person | 2 answers |
| Glass half empty sort | 2 answers |
| Prophet of doom | 3 answers |
| UNSUCCESSFUL person | 8 answers |
| Scaremonger | 14 answers |
| DISCOURAGING person | 15 answers |
| DESPONDENT person | 17 answers |
| Oppressor | 18 answers |
| terrorist | 18 answers |
| ALARMIST | 20 answers |
| intimidator | 21 answers |
| doomster | 24 answers |
| doom merchant | 25 answers |
| cynic | 25 answers |
| persecutor | 28 answers |
| FAINT-hearted person | 29 answers |
| Despot | 31 answers |
| Pessimist | 32 answers |
| craven | 33 answers |
| Tyrant | 36 answers |
| Doubter | 37 answers |
| Autocrat | 39 answers |
| Dictator | 40 answers |
| Cowardly ___ | 45 answers |
| Quitter | 46 answers |
| BULLY ___ | 63 answers |
| funk | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFEATIST (5)
Next came those "defeatist" cranks who always think their own side must be wrong, and who are of no more practical use than the out-and-out "pacifists" who think everybody wrong except themselves.
Somewhat earlier the French had suffered a severe and almost disastrous defeat in Champagne which produced mutinies in the army and a defeatist agitation among the civilians.
There are a great many as you know mental diseases and troubles at present, and the one thing Bahá’ís must not do is take a defeatist attitude toward them.
Maybe it was being defeatist, but he had to make sure that they had a way off this planet if the mission failed.
Without mercy for the bad autosuggestions of the "defeatist" type, but indefatigably painstaking, active and smiling, to help everyone to develop their personality, and to teach them to cure themselves, which is the characteristic of his beneficent method.
Quotes with DEFEATIST (3)
Don’t be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth.
So, the rationale of having written this book is to say an inspiring word to a lot of people who are hurting, crying and sounding defeatist, an inspiring word to millions of people who are living in pain and indigence. I wrote it for a young chap who hopes there is no life after death so that he can finally rest, for a dejected ailing woman who thinks God enjoys torturing her and for some hopeless lad who threatens his friends he’d shoot himself. I wrote it for them and for myself.
You need to stop this defeatist aura around you. When you project sadness, you push people away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1981–2019).