What is "defeatists"

Usage examples of "defeatists".

He was spreading some counter-rumours to the defeatists, and that, too, was part of a general's job.

For one thing, Hitler had often confided in Bormann his suspicions that not all cowards and defeatists were in the Armed Forces.

Instead of supporting me and trying to lick some enthusiasm into this miserable bunch of defeatists, he immediately concludes his survey is inaccurate and goes crawling off into the mountains like a wounded cur.

But let me say this to those defeatists and doubters: should the state of Denmark, now or in the future, attempt to occupy Mark Twain's Missouri, or the wonderful old South of Gone with the Wind, in the way that they have so ruthlessly occupied "Hamlet's Castle" all these centuries, I would no more hesitate to send in the Marines to free Hannibal and Atlanta and Richmond and Jackson and St.

A bunch of no-good tramps, half-baked defeatists playing cribbage for matches!

With the exception of one or two defeatists, the officers and enlisted men and women of the Navy have no interest in negotiating with the Thebans.