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Meaning of "pyrrhic"
Pyrrhic (adjective) - used to describe a victory that comes at a great cost or is not worth the effort
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- Of or characterized by pyrrhics (metrical feet with two short syllables).
- Relating to Pyrrhus, a Macedonian king, or some of his costly victories he had while fighting Rome.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pyrrhic (“achieved at too great a cost”)
- An Ancient Greek war dance.
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But that would be a pyrrhic victory at best.
A pyrrhic victory in which its losses.
He tells me you have had a pyrrhic victory.
But this is a pyrrhic victory on both sides.
Consider the cost of this pyrrhic victory.
Pyrrhic victories are never victories at all.
I understand what you mean by pyrrhic victory.
But it will be a pyrrhic victory for both sides.
Pyrrhic victories and all that.
The very definition of a pyrrhic victory.
Pyrrhic victory for certain.
This sounds like a pyrrhic victory.
A pyrrhic victory thus far.
A history littered with pyrrhic victories.
This pyrrhic victory meant that they were never again used en masse.
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Feels like a pyrrhic victory.
Criminalizing workers and unions for upholding rights is a pyrrhic victory.
So it was a pyrrhic victory at best.
But victory may be pyrrhic.
Any victory will be pyrrhic and any defeat will be punic.
The victory may be pyrrhic.
I suppose a Pyrrhic victory is still a victory.
We must not allow the proposed rule to become a pyrrhic victory.
We fear a Pyrrhic victory in this dispute.
Every day above ground is a Pyrrhic victory.
This was something of a Pyrrhic victory as the route was very lengthy.
But this delay was more of a Pyrrhic victory.
It is a Pyrrhic victory in any case.
The airline did have one Pyrrhic victory.
This is a Pyrrhic victory at best.
This situation is commonly referred to as a Pyrrhic victory.
This was if anything a Pyrrhic victory for both states.
We could declare their victory a Pyrrhic one.
A pyrrhic victory in which its losses Had made victory pointless.
So this is a pyrrhic victory.
I am pretty sure that their victory will be Pyrrhic.
Flores did not enjoy his Pyrrhic victory for long.
The victory for the entertainment business was Pyrrhic.
Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has been victorious in some way.
That is precisely the kind of Pyrrhic victory.
Some were Pyrrhic victories such as an agreement not to shoot into houses.
But now it is clear that it was a Pyrrhic victory.
The outcome of the trial was a Pyrrhic victory for Achilli whose reputation was ruined.
To persist in wanting this kind of market would be a Pyrrhic victory.
You may find your victory Pyrrhic when subjected to this lyric.
Although with a name like Miuccia the victory is pyrrhic.
Yet its closure could turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for environmentalists.
Pyrrhic victory of the Kolchak armies on Tobol.
But that may ultimately be a Pyrrhic victory.
It was a Pyrrhic victory for the Confederates.
