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Meanings of dispiriting in English
Destructive of morale and self-reliance.
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Examples for "disheartening"
Examples for "disheartening"
1
A few weeks later Lea sent him a standard and disheartening letter.
2
The first attempts to focus our awareness often proves to be disheartening.
3
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released figures revealing a disheartening fact.
4
And here lies the trouble,-inthe unfathomable, disheartening duplicity of the race.
5
His view was a snapshot of personal violation, both disheartening and overwhelming.
1
But there is no romance in trench fighting; it is sickening, demoralizing.
2
Nothing can be more demoralizing in the long run than lynch law.
3
The Republic is not the demoralizing force some would have it believed.
4
Play then changes to fooling and if habitually indulged in is demoralizing.
5
Castro complained that the low-level planes were demoralizing Cuban and Soviet troops.
1
Two recently published books reflect the atmosphere: very negative and very demoralising.
2
Irish rugby hasn't known such a demoralising weekend in a long time.
3
Another demoralising defeat, another inquest into where English football is going wrong.
4
Against infantry in the open this sort of thing is extremely demoralising.
5
I shall have you demoralising the whole ward if you stay here.
Usage of dispiriting in English
1
Fog machines provide a dispiriting miasma; the puddles come from water trucks.
2
It conflicts with the box set regime, and it can be dispiriting.
3
I had nothing to complain of; but the effect was rather dispiriting.
4
But the period after the interval was even more dispiriting for Chelsea.
5
This is pretty dispiriting, bordering on manically depressing, from a European perspective.
6
If you're a rationalist, there's something a little dispiriting about all this.
7
Choosing the wrong course can be an expensive and dispiriting error.
8
Even at the best of times, there is something dispiriting about house viewings.
9
Even in the gloom, there was something forlorn and dispiriting in his walk.
10
A lack of luck was another of Palace's problems on a dispiriting day.
11
The phone hacking affair casts a dispiriting light on the state of journalism.
12
Her 2014 French Open title was another high after a dispiriting injury low.
13
It's a dispiriting return to the politics of protest and posture.
14
A dispiriting experience Saturday wasn't a great advertisement for Pacific rugby.
15
His situation we should now suppose in the highest degree gloomy and dispiriting.
16
She had a dispiriting first month of hunting lodgings in the crowded city.
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Dispiriting across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
Less common