disheartenment
Example Sentences
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The letter, titled "Authors for Libraries," expresses disheartenment about "the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association."
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2022
It was in this deepest abyss in the valley of disheartenment that I met a former prison-mate named Kellow; a forger whose time of release from the penitentiary coincided nearly with my own.
From Branded by Francis Lynde
It was more than chagrin, more than the disheartenment of the workman at failure, when he lost a patient.
From Fidelity A Novel by Susan Glaspell
What would prevent the beauty from seeing it also and preempting to herself the honors of his disheartenment?
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
"Ain't nothin' pleasant ter think of in er horspital," wailed John, the present disheartenment clouding over all past happiness.
From The Primrose Ring by Ruth Sawyer
