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disheartening
adjective as in appalling
adjective as in bleak
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adjective as in depressing
adjective as in disappointing
adjective as in discouraging
adjective as in dismal
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- afflictive
- black
- boring
- cheerless
- cloudy
- dark
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- dingy
- disagreeable
- dispiriting
- doleful
- dolorous
- forlorn
- frowning
- funereal
- gruesome
- hopeless
- in the pits
- inauspicious
- joyless
- lonesome
- lowering
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- monotonous
- morbid
- oppressive
- overcast
- shadowy
- somber
- sorrowful
- tedious
- tenebrous
- troublesome
- unfortunate
- unhappy
adjective as in dispiriting
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adjective as in frightening
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adjective as in funereal
adjective as in gloomy
adjective as in off
adjective as in oppressive
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adjective as in sad
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Example Sentences
"It would be disheartening if the removal of alleged fugitives to Britain put ordinary citizens at increased risk of being sent the other way," she added.
That is disheartening, but it also explains why Emmys producers chose such an aggressive strategy to curtail speeches.
And if your attitude is that you don't and that we are, in fact, scamming the system in some way, then it's so disheartening.
“There are many levels to this but what’s so disheartening is to see the few wealthy elite say, ‘We got ours.
“A lot of these folks are contributors to our community and to our neighborhoods, so it’s just disheartening,” Leon said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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