Meanings of demoralising effect in English

Such things had a demoralising effect, and treachery was an infectious disease.

Moreover, the lodging-house has had a most demoralising effect upon him.

As if we hadn't proved long ago the demoralising effect of corporal chastisement!

The nation had now nearly recovered from the demoralising effect of the Puritan austerity.

When with them one becomes perfectly familiar with nudity and there is no demoralising effect.

The British heavy artillery also fired short, which had a most demoralising effect on the men in front.

It was found that their publication had a demoralising effect on schools which came towards the bottom of the table.

First, it diverted men's minds from the one question; secondly, it left behind it the demoralising effect inseparable from untruth.

You remember the line of Homer I have often quoted about the demoralising effect of enslavement; poverty degrades in the same way.'

For none knew better than Captain Vane the benefit of discipline, and the demoralising effect of its absence, especially in trying circumstances.

The rumour that it is to be used for Army jam has had a most demoralising effect upon the market in imported tomatoes.

The protracted and messy nature of the election could also have a demoralising effect on foreign troops, with military casualties reaching record levels this year.

Hence it is that a democratic form of government is productive of such demoralising effects.

Whatever pleasure the retiring President might have derived from contemplating these facts was lost sight of in the demoralising effects of the embargo.

Such is the estimate I have formed of their general character, independent of the demoralising effects of their institutions, which renders it so anomalous.

We at once see the object of Caius, and how the justice of it might have blinded him to the demoralising effects of his measure.