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Pyrrhic victory   /pˈɪrɪk vˈɪktəri/   Listen
adjective
Pyrrhic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance. " ye have the pyrrhic dance as yet."
2.
(Pros.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.
Pyrrhic victory,
(a)
a victory in which the winning side sustains very heavy losses.
(b)
any act supposedly benefitting the actor, for which the costs outweight the benefits.





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"Pyrrhic victory" Quotes from Famous Books



... same result of a sharp correspondence, abounding in strong language, but affording Canning further opportunity to confuse issues and escape from reparations, which, however just and wise, were distasteful. It was a Pyrrhic victory for the British minister, destroying the last chance of conciliating American acquiescence in a line of action forced upon Great Britain by Napoleon; but as a mere question of dialectics he had scored ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan


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