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adjective ˈpɪrɪkˈpɪrɪk (of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor. （胜利）皮洛士式的，得不偿失的；代价过高的 Example sentencesExamples - This is that ‘peace’ in that troubled province is of the most bitterly pyrrhic kind.
- For the council, however, it is something of a pyrrhic victory.
- Yet win he did, and that pyrrhic victory effectively condemned the party to the position it occupies today.
- I had him flogged, but it was a pyrrhic victory: the woman promptly ran off with the peasant, and the tour guide with my money.
- Let our political discourse focus on this, and perhaps, more pyrrhic victories can be avoided.
- To date he has won only pyrrhic victories on foundation hospitals and university top-up fees.
- Unless that is done, any military success in Afghanistan will be a pyrrhic victory.
- I don't know where the pain-killer story will lead, but the football story is probably a pyrrhic victory for the thought control police.
- The Khomeinists will do well, but will lack legitimacy, and it may be a pyrrhic victory for them.
- The victory was pyrrhic because the Indonesian Police started investigating the company for alleged corruption.
- But it could be a pyrrhic victory which does the West no good in the long term.
- It would have been a pyrrhic victory had he succeeded: Satyanand revealed that the police file had disappeared.
- But, as 2002 revealed, it had been a pyrrhic victory.
- More troops would be sent, and eventually the British would grind their way to a pyrrhic victory.
- In a pyrrhic victory, I watch the American half of my children merge - more gracefully than I - into Kiwis.
- The Liberals bought a pyrrhic victory, one that will sow the seeds of its own destruction.
- Another pyrrhic victory is likely to be added to an already long list.
- No doubt, Sunday's win could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory.
- Nine times out of ten I lost, and made his a pyrrhic victory at best.
- A more ‘equitable’, though ruined, Venezuela would be a pyrrhic victory indeed.
- The pyrrhic victory came as violence continues unabated in Gujarat.
Synonyms meaningless, empty, valueless, worthless, useless, futile, of no use, of no value, of no avail, fruitless, profitless, pointless, unavailing
OriginLate 19th century: from the name Pyrrhus + -ic. noun ˈpɪrɪkˈpɪrɪk A metrical foot of two short or unaccented syllables. 二短音步，抑抑格
OriginEarly 17th century: via Latin from Greek purrhikhios (pous) 'pyrrhic (foot)', the metre of a song accompanying a war dance, named after Purrhikhos, inventor of the dance. adjectiveˈpɪrɪkˈpirik attributive (of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor. （胜利）皮洛士式的，得不偿失的；代价过高的 Example sentencesExamples - But it could be a pyrrhic victory which does the West no good in the long term.
- The victory was pyrrhic because the Indonesian Police started investigating the company for alleged corruption.
- Nine times out of ten I lost, and made his a pyrrhic victory at best.
- It would have been a pyrrhic victory had he succeeded: Satyanand revealed that the police file had disappeared.
- I don't know where the pain-killer story will lead, but the football story is probably a pyrrhic victory for the thought control police.
- For the council, however, it is something of a pyrrhic victory.
- Unless that is done, any military success in Afghanistan will be a pyrrhic victory.
- I had him flogged, but it was a pyrrhic victory: the woman promptly ran off with the peasant, and the tour guide with my money.
- No doubt, Sunday's win could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory.
- The Liberals bought a pyrrhic victory, one that will sow the seeds of its own destruction.
- Another pyrrhic victory is likely to be added to an already long list.
- In a pyrrhic victory, I watch the American half of my children merge - more gracefully than I - into Kiwis.
- But, as 2002 revealed, it had been a pyrrhic victory.
- Let our political discourse focus on this, and perhaps, more pyrrhic victories can be avoided.
- The pyrrhic victory came as violence continues unabated in Gujarat.
- Yet win he did, and that pyrrhic victory effectively condemned the party to the position it occupies today.
- A more ‘equitable’, though ruined, Venezuela would be a pyrrhic victory indeed.
- The Khomeinists will do well, but will lack legitimacy, and it may be a pyrrhic victory for them.
- More troops would be sent, and eventually the British would grind their way to a pyrrhic victory.
- To date he has won only pyrrhic victories on foundation hospitals and university top-up fees.
- This is that ‘peace’ in that troubled province is of the most bitterly pyrrhic kind.
Synonyms meaningless, empty, valueless, worthless, useless, futile, of no use, of no value, of no avail, fruitless, profitless, pointless, unavailing
OriginLate 19th century: from the name Pyrrhus + -ic. nounˈpirikˈpɪrɪk A metrical foot of two short or unaccented syllables. 二短音步，抑抑格
OriginEarly 17th century: via Latin from Greek purrhikhios (pous) ‘pyrrhic (foot)’, the meter of a song accompanying a war dance, named after Purrhikhos, inventor of the dance. |