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

Sadness gives place to joy, despair to hope, and disheartenment to encouragement.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

It was in this period of doubt and disheartenment that I turned to my little daughter with gratitude and a deep sense of the mystery of her coming.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

My performance was a failure, and to complete my disheartenment I reached the station about five minutes after the last eastern train had pulled out.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

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 Miller, Elizabeth