demoralize

As a culture, we probably do create unreasonable, sentimental expectations around family that depress and demoralize vast numbers of people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

But the obvious goal is to demoralize federal workers across the board.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025

A heavy loss of seats could demoralize the party faithful and panic Tory lawmakers, who fear that they will be tossed out of Parliament in the general election.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

Dancers accused Star Garden management of introducing arbitrary rules and implementing high drink prices and cover fees in bad faith in an effort to deter customers, demoralize dancers and weaken resolve in contract negotiations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

“I didn’t want to demoralize you too early in the game.”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

In a world that often demoralizes rural Americans, and Appalachians in particular, it is imperative that we understand the value of our experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

None of this really demoralizes Im, who knows as well as anybody that his park is a gigantic money sink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

“It demoralizes police officers and that doesn’t do any good for the officers or the community.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

“It almost demoralizes you playing against that because it’s hard to get a clean look.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2019

No part of us is more susceptible of morbidness than the moral sense; none demoralizes more thoroughly when morbid.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

It’s possible those demoralized job seekers are pushing the participation rate lower, said Martin of Oxford Economics.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Smith quit the ASA around the same time, demoralized by what he saw as a lack of self-awareness among his colleagues, whose work focused on the world’s wrongs while failing to recognize their own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

But when he and his coaching staff took over the U.S. team in the fall of 2024, following its disastrous performance in the Copa América, he said he inherited a demoralized, dispirited group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

And some of the university men, who were unused to such a hard life, were so demoralized by the events of the last months that they seemed ready to break down.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Still, he said, it’s been demoralizing to have so many come back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Challenges like adjusting to a new language or learning unfamiliar customs and eating different foods can prove exhausting and demoralizing.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The findings about the bat bridges were demoralizing for Altringham, who during his career appeared at several public inquiries into the impact of road-building projects on bats.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

The cost, while small, felt like what one worker described as the “cherry on top” of a demoralizing work culture beset by layoffs and overwhelming workloads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Usually we broke down in the middle, and always had a demoralizing effect on the more talented children, and on their parents in the audience.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey