defaitism

Now that's defaitism -- cheer up Janne, maybe some day we *will* get rid of these patronizing, moralizing humbugs :-) ?

1992 February 10, Fredrik.Ostman, “Swedish Double Standard (Gambling)”, in soc.culture.nordic (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022

Don't all enviros have moments of defaitism from time to time?

1998 August 13, Fenris, “Archived Message for Future Inhabitants”, in sci.environment (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022

Women react to adversity differently from what we'd expect, and different women react in different ways. Sometimes they express their insecurity by various forms of defaitism, escape and by being intimidated by the whole thing rather then by investing more effort, what u might have expected.

1999 September 24, Steph, “In love with woman with intercultural baby! HELP”, in soc.couples.intercultural (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022

Any attempts to try to negotiate with the New Order of the US or to make deals with it are simply to be regarded as defaitism and appeasement. Everybody out there, take heed of the warnings of history.

2002 December 1, Nes, “In wake of Predator success, U.S. weighs assassination options”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022

Address munging is defaitism and doesn't bother spammers the least. But it is hostile to communication.

2003 April 7, Jukka K. Korpela, “longest thread”, in news.groups.questions (Usenet), retrieved 11 May 2022