refute
verb (used with object)
to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
self-refuting
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a word derived from
refute.
Example Sentences
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But they won't come out and say that, because they know that this argument is self-refuting.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025
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
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 Ida Husted Harper
