What is "self-destructive"

Usage examples of "self-destructive".

It was as though the bees carried a self-destructive mechanism set to go off at the same time.

The older the man, the more experience he has with Chinas always unpredictable, sometimes self-destructive politics.

And she had never met a more self-destructive person than Yuan Sirat Tiernan ambrov Rior.

He rebels and erupts in a serious of self-defeating and self-destructive behaviours, which lead to the disintegration of his life.

In our case these lapses are often accompanied by bouts of self-destructive behavior.

Unaccustomed foods that could leach nutrients out of you instead of putting them in, or chemically bind what you needed… he could think of a dozen absolutely plausible excuses for calculatedly self-destructive behavior, half of them dietary and the other half because, dammit, his own hard-wiring or his own culture wanted to like some single one of the people he’d devoted his life to helping.

For more than ten years the present champion was clearly the greatest chess player in the world, but during that time he exhibited such willful and seemingly self-destructive behavior—refusing to enter crucial tournaments, quitting them for crankish reasons while holding a commanding lead, entertaining what many called a paranoid delusion that the whole world was plotting to keep him from reaching the top—that many informed experts wrote him off as a contender for the highest honors.

Other epileptics develop their self-destructive side, as was the case with van Gogh.

Every phase of its growth might be accompanied by incursions, infiltrations, terrorist acts, and maneuvers that, like feints, were designed to lead the deceived enemy into an error that would be highly costly for him or even self-destructive.

Hesse's third novel is told by the composer Kuhn, who achieves success in his art when he comes under the sway of two artists -- Heinrich Muoth, a melancholy and self-destructive opera singer, and the beautiful and delightful Gertrude.