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Self-defeating   /sɛlf-dɪfˈitɪŋ/   Listen
Self-defeating

adjective
1.
Acting to defeat its own purpose.






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"Self-defeating" Quotes from Famous Books



... And yet—craft /is/ self-defeating in the end. Transmute it into its finest possible form, let it be as subtle and civilized as you please, as yearning and noble, as enlightened, it still sets itself over against the wholeness of things; its role is that of the part at war with the whole. Milton's Lucifer ...
— This Simian World • Clarence Day Jr.



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