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- noun Plural form of
defeatist .
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Examples
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Meanwhile certain defeatists are forecasting that we will fail to get the referendum.
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Meanwhile certain defeatists are forecasting that we will fail to get the referendum.
Archive 2007-09-02 2007
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First you attempt to ridicule as "defeatists" those who understand that the Democrats are far too rotten to "be pushed to the left."
Confronting Two Big Lies: A Strategy for Democratic Revival 2009
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For years, Mr. Bush didn't give a darn, calling those who questioned the war "defeatists" and repeating that we were going to "stay the course."
Flavia Colgan: President 'Not Satisfied' -- or Satisfactory 2008
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Fear-mongering harms national security: crying wolf leads to public complacency, and opponents attacked as "defeatists" are less inclined to genuinely cooperate with the President.
Fred Branfman: President Bush is Endangering our Lives - 13. Actively Dividing Us at Home 2008
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The Republicans have swallowed both wars hook, line, and sinker, and the Democrats know that if they propose any sort of pullout they will be labeled "defeatists" and blamed for the miserable outcome.
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And, yet, they have no problem going on TV and Radio and call veterans like me "defeatists" or "phony soldiers," and talk about how this is a necessary sacrifice we need to make.
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McCain - and other Republican candidates except for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas - is comfortable with saying, simplistically, that Democrats are "defeatists" in Iraq, while, of course he implies quite openly that the others who are ofhis opinion are "on the side ofvictory."
Someone Needs to Call Candidate McCain on His "Surrender" Accusation against Democrats. 2008
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He's lashed out at Americans who disagree with his blundering militarism in Iraq and elsewhere as "defeatists" who just want 'terrorists' to win whatever he imagines they want.
New Brooms 2006
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In a few months, someone would cash out; either the "defeatists", or the panglossians.
Archive 2004-05-01 2004
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