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

Every word he uttered made more apparent to Cavanagh that Lee Virginia would derive nothing but pain and disheartenment from a knowledge that her father 168 lived.

From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin

Harriett was talking of the monument Cyrus thought there should be at the cemetery; Ruth listened and replied—seemed only tired, and all the while these thoughts were shaping themselves in her inner confusion and disheartenment.

From Fidelity A Novel by Glaspell, Susan

Sometimes waves of disheartenment came on cloudy days of testing, when the sun was hidden and life looked cheerless and hard.

From The First Soprano by Hitchcock, Mary

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