self-destructive
adjEtymology From self- + destructive.
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Causing injury to oneself or harm to one's interests.
- Between 1997 and 2006, ownership of Glenfeshie passed between three Danish businessmen – and with it a self-destructive business model. Only by maintaining very high numbers of livestock could the flow of fee-paying deerstalkers armed with rifles be ensured, but because of the rising cost of gamekeepers and estate upkeep, Glenfeshie’s sporting operations were still making a loss.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- self-destructively, self-destructiveness