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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This assertion is self-refuting, however; the paper actually says that under some circumstances, six feet may not be enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
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
In that sense, accusations of opportunism from aggravated donors are self-refuting.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2018
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
