self-refuting
- a word derived from refute.
Example Sentences
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If any phrase were ever self-refuting, that’s it.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023
Pinker accuses postmodernists of “defiant obscurantism, self-refuting relativism and suffocating political correctness.”
From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2021
This is partially true -- he did play “a bold and brave hero” onscreen -- and partially self-refuting.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2020
There is a case to be made that Wu and Ansari’s complaints are self-refuting.
From Slate • May 27, 2016
I wish that every Senator would examine this report and note how many of its reasonings are self-refuting and how few even seem to warrant further antagonism.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted
