A pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

pyrrhic verses.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

pyrrhic dance movements.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I believe this is what we call a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Add insult to injury] Reference

If not getting the World Cup is a victory, then surely it's a kind of pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

I do believe that's called a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A, B, C-Section] Reference

Even if Hillary wins it will be a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florida And Michigan Governors Demand Seating Of Delegates] Reference

I hope that that victory is not too pyrrhic though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louise Nicholas] Reference

The other was a teeny-tiny pyrrhic victory in Indiana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Collis: The Billary Hillbillies] Reference

For some reason I felt a need to win a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manner of Death]

Prop 8 is looking more and more like a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt Coles: Mormons and Knights and Understanding Proposition 8] Reference

Our acquittal in the treason trial was a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE FIRST BRAM FISCHER MEMORIAL LECTURE] Reference

Twitter photos love-notes e-mail design hosted pyrrhic lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [natinski Diary Entry] Reference

But I actually think that it may be politically a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2005] Reference

You were probably expecting more in the way of Woofs! than pyrrhic.    From Wordnik.com.  [I A Dog] Reference

Unfortunately for the doctors, they had won only a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [William B. McAllister - Fighting Reformers: The Debate over the Reorganization of The French Military Medical Service 1870-1889.] Reference

And whoever the victor, the pyrrhic prize would be a few tons of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enjoyment] Reference

This would be a pyrrhic victory for the cause of inter-racial solidarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 13] Reference

True, "Largest American Car Company" might by a pyrrhic title these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Ford Restructured Without Federal Help] Reference

Mr. Asmus says that Moscow won the war militarily but it was a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little War, Big Consequences in Georgia] Reference

But any victory claimed by these forces of intolerance will be pyrrhic at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: A Pyrrhic Victory for Demagoguery] Reference

But if they lose Ohio and/or Florida in the process it will be a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polls: Pennsylvania Slipping Away For McCain?] Reference

That Supreme Court victory for freelancers turned out to be either pyrrhic or moot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erik Lundegaard: Another Writers Strike? Why I Have Sympathy...] Reference

It may appear that she "wins" because she collects money, but it's a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [BJ Gallagher: Sexual Harassment: How to Protect Yourself and Your Organization] Reference

He was the most electable, but the victory was pyrrhic because Nixon won in a canter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Airing New Ad In Montana] Reference

Time and again, it has provided us with pyrrhic -- or at best short-lived -- victories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Clothier: Clinton vs. Obama: The Fighter] Reference

The pyrrhic victory of the party's nomination will hopefully stroke the ego of the "winner".    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Doo-Doo Time: Romney-Mistreats-Dog Story Hits Associated Press] Reference

From the military point of view, this has been a pyrrhic victory and a profound moral defeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEETING IN HAVANA] Reference

It is a pyrrhic victory which will haunt Republicans when the light of history will shine on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeleine M. Kunin: Don't Ask, Don't Tell] Reference

Let the pyrrhic victory in Grenada not intoxicate them nor lead to new and irretrievable mistakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEETING IN HAVANA] Reference

But you're defending the Clinton style of pyrrhic politics that has been nothing but a GOP-enabler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazile: Howard Dean And Other Party Leaders Should Be Prepared To Step In] Reference

A total win for one side in any negotiation is just wrong because it's almost always a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [7 Leaders on Life Lessons] Reference

Or no they probably wouldn't since with the language themselves the point would be a pretty pyrrhic one.    From Wordnik.com.  [I A Dog] Reference

If the measure is passed, it will be a pyrrhic victory that owes more to political survival than principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Major warning] Reference

Even the music industry's assumed triumph over illegal downloaders increasingly seems like a pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two months to plot a media regulation 'big bang'? Get ready for shrapnel] Reference

I'm beginning to suspect that an HRC win in the primary would be the very definition of a pyrrhic victory for us Dems.    From Wordnik.com.  [SurveyUSA: Obama Up By 13 In Final SC Poll, In Racially Polarized Campaign] Reference

Do not be so imbecile as to believe that your garden will be hailed upon, if you have missed dancing the pyrrhic or the cordax.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

France, however many battles it won, has been humiliated in war throughout modernity, even in its greatest and yet most pyrrhic victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Vlahos: Mon General McChrystal] Reference

A win now would be dreadful for the RP, It would be like the Tories in 1992, a pyrrhic victory which led to annihilation a few years later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference