self-stultifying
adjEtymology From self- + stultifying.
1
Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences Of a statement or idea That is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.
- It's self-stultifying for a politician to say that all politicians are liars.
2
Self-denigrating.
- […] we have got to renounce a program that always involves humiliating self-stultifying scrambling to crawl somewhere where we are not wanted; where we crouch panting like a whipped dog.1972, Norman Coombs, The Black Experience in America:
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