self-destructive
adjective
harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself.
self-destructively
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a word derived from
self-destructive.
Example Sentences
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“Perhaps unconsciously and self-destructively, I have chosen a task designed to show that I am less than who I had believed myself to be,” he writes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
The film’s pivotal piece is Greensmith’s Hunter, who is as impressively impassioned as he is self-destructively abrasive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
It would also reduce pressures on police and prison personnel to behave in ways that self-destructively rob them of their humanity as well as oppress others.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2020
Thelma and Louise, she wrote, “become free but only wildly, self-destructively so—free to drive off the ends of the earth.”
From Time ● May 23, 2016
Living creatures that expended their energy ineffectively or self-destructively would be eliminated in the struggle for existence.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
