dispirit
Example Sentences
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One report offered little hope for unemployed workers mired in long, dispiriting job searches.
“We are up to the summer of 1939, eighty-four years ago if my math is correct,” I added, throwing in an arithmetical flourish that thoroughly dispirited her.
From Literature
Now, nearly four years on, this dispiriting loss - after a timid and uninspiring performance from his side in the last-four tie - will cut just as deep for Salah.
From BBC
It was a vibrant and dispiriting time, and Elie’s history is a sharp cross-cultural study that speaks to the present as well.
From Los Angeles Times
Few sights could be more dispiriting to the rest of English soccer than Liverpool cruising to a championship last spring and immediately adding half a billion dollars’ worth of talent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
