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Meanings of dispiriting in English

Making despondent or depressive.

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      Destructive of morale and self-reliance.

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            Usage of dispiriting in English
            1
            Fog machines provide a dispiriting miasma; the puddles come from water trucks.
            The Guardian
            2
            It conflicts with the box set regime, and it can be dispiriting.
            The Guardian
            3
            I had nothing to complain of; but the effect was rather dispiriting.
            J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
            4
            But the period after the interval was even more dispiriting for Chelsea.
            The Irish Times
            5
            This is pretty dispiriting, bordering on manically depressing, from a European perspective.
            The Guardian
            6
            If you're a rationalist, there's something a little dispiriting about all this.
            The Guardian
            7
            Choosing the wrong course can be an expensive and dispiriting error.
            The Guardian
            8
            Even at the best of times, there is something dispiriting about house viewings.
            The Irish Times
            9
            Even in the gloom, there was something forlorn and dispiriting in his walk.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 / A Magazine...
            10
            A lack of luck was another of Palace's problems on a dispiriting day.
            The Guardian
            11
            The phone hacking affair casts a dispiriting light on the state of journalism.
            The Guardian
            12
            Her 2014 French Open title was another high after a dispiriting injury low.
            News.com.au
            13
            It's a dispiriting return to the politics of protest and posture.
            The Irish Times
            14
            A dispiriting experience Saturday wasn't a great advertisement for Pacific rugby.
            Radio NZ
            15
            His situation we should now suppose in the highest degree gloomy and dispiriting.
            Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer
            16
            She had a dispiriting first month of hunting lodgings in the crowded city.
            Main Street
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