SIEGE MENTALITY


Meaning of SIEGE MENTALITY in English

If a group of people have a siege mentality , they think that other people are constantly trying to harm or defeat them, and so they care only about protecting themselves.

Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served.

N-SING : also no det

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