defeatist

This sounds defeatist - it shouldn’t be on parents to come up with all the policy solutions in what is an incredibly complicated space.

He describes his country as "tired and angry, but not defeatist."

Lying low in our green zone sounds pretty defeatist.

I shook off my defeatist attitude and gave Fig a confident nod, followed by a scratch under his chin.

Sir Jeffrey has now bitten back calling it "defeatist and negative".