negativistic

Example Sentences

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Certainly this type of thinking is more valuable and constructive than the hysterical and negativistic brand so widespread at the moment.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Most of the patients showed a sullen, slightly aggressive, or negativistic behavior,” according to the book.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

A final stage of resistance is reached when propaganda develops a negativistic defensive reaction.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

Shortly after confinement began, he became stuporous, being mute and negativistic, soiling, refusing food and showing stereotypy.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)

He was mute, negativistic, and assumed various uncomfortable and constrained attitudes.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard