dispirited
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Its cast includes the bickering members of a Sri Lankan hotel cleaner’s family, insecure American freshmen, dead-end third-tier college professors and their highflying Ivy League counterparts and dispirited university functionaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
When Pochettino, who played in a World Cup for Argentina, took over the U.S. team in the fall of 2024, he said he inherited a demoralized, dispirited group.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Only a few hundred dispirited Chelsea fans were still inside Wembley as Cole Palmer and Co trudged up the steps to collect their losers' medals following their FA Cup final defeat by Manchester City.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Four months on from what happened, I am quite dispirited.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
I pass a breadline—a long row of shabby dispirited people leading to the door of a mission.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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The Red Pony
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"Watership Down" by Richard Adams, Chapters 35-38
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