self-stultifying adjective2 •That is inherently disproven, undermined or hindered by the very act of expressing it, without being a logical contradiction.It's self-stultifying for a politician to say that all politicians are liars. •Self-denigrating.[…] we have got to renounce a program that always involves humiliating self-stultifying scrambling to crawl somewhere where we are not wanted; where we crouch panting like a whipped dog. — 1972
