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Example sentences from the Web for dispiritingPerhaps even the indefatigable John Kerry might be discouraged from more futile and dispiriting peace talks. Here’s What the U.S. Has to Do to Deal With the Mad Middle East|Leslie H. Gelb|July 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST What do you find most dispiriting about the current talk news climate? John Oliver on ‘Last Week Tonight,’ Turning Down CBS, and ‘Nauseating’ American Politics|Marlow Stern|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST It makes for disturbing and dispiriting but essential and educational reading. The Book America Needs to Read Right Now|John Kael Weston|January 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST This is as outrageous as it is dispiriting (and predictable). Four Principles for a Libertarian National Security State|Nick Gillespie|September 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What a spectacular unraveling of a revolution, what a dispiriting death of a dream. Why Egypt Has Coups … and We Don’t|Tunku Varadarajan|August 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST How cold, how dull, how dispiriting is it at times to see the whole congregation clear out the moment the preaching is over! The Assembly of God|C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh I was loth to have her think that my grief was owing to the weak state I saw her in, for fear of dispiriting her. Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8|Samuel Richardson The sunlight had lost its glory, the flowers had become pale and odorless, the songs of the birds dull and dispiriting. The Redemption of David Corson|Charles Frederic Goss Indeed, the whole tenor of the speech was generally regarded as unsatisfactory and dispiriting. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. IV (of 6)|Louis Creswicke The trail wound upward into country that grew more and more gloomy and dispiriting. The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three|Dexter J. Forrester
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adjectivetending to lower the spirit or enthusiasm; depressing; discouraging Derived forms of dispiritingdispiritingly, adverbWords nearby dispiritingdispersoid, disphenoid, dispireme, dispirit, dispirited, dispiriting, dispiteous, displace, displaced, displaced homemaker, displaced person Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to dispiritingdismal, discouraging, disheartening, crushing, demoralizing, saddening, cheerless, gloomy, joyless, melancholy, sad |