reflexive

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My source, who prefers not to be named out of fear at what she described as a reflexive tendency toward "butthurt" against public criticism of Filipino cultural institutions, went on to say the following:

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  1. adjective Directed back on itself.
  2. adjective Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verb having an identical subject and direct object, as dressed in the sentence She dressed herself.
  3. adjective Grammar Of, relating to, or being the pronoun used as the direct object of a reflexive verb, as herself in She dressed herself.
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  • His heroism had been reflexive, his desire to survive instinctive. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • She knew she'd been right in her reflexive, almost instinctive, lie. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 04 - April 1996
  • Lilith's wish to escape the carriage had been reflexive, and for perhaps two whole minutes she had actually believed she would walk home. —  Chase, Loretta - Knave's Wager
  • "But the Museum of the Moving Image showed a good print in their current Diary of the Dead to be" by far the most self-reflexive, stylistically experimental and politically undisguised of the —  GreenCine Daily
  • With his highly self-reflexive (and some might say, self-absorbed) graphic memoir, —  FILTER
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  1. from Old French reflexif, French réflexif =Provencal reflexiu =Spanish Portuguese reflexivo =Italian reflessivo, riflessivo, from Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere, bend backward: see reflect.
 

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/rəˈflɛksɪv/
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