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Re: Self-defeating

Posted by DH on October 21, 2004

In Reply to: Re: Self-defeating posted by Smokey Stover on October 21, 2004

Thank you guys, but self-defeating isn't a word, while "nugatory" doesn't fit at all. Have we discovered another one of those concepts for which there's no "proper" English word so we must resort to slang