demoralize

As a culture, we probably do create unreasonable, sentimental expectations around family that depress and demoralize vast numbers of people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

But the obvious goal is to demoralize federal workers across the board.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025

Others, however, have said that such messaging may have no impact on behavior, or worse, that it may depress and demoralize the public into inaction.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

Dancers and their supporters accuse Star Garden management of pricing drinks and cover fees in bad faith in an effort to deter customers, demoralize dancers and weaken resolve in contract negotiations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

They were younger, coarser men who enforced every niggling regulation, whose job was to harass and demoralize us.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In a world that often demoralizes rural Americans, and Appalachians in particular, it is imperative that we understand the value of our experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

“It demoralizes the workforce ... you got substandard classes,” you said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

“It demoralizes police officers and that doesn’t do any good for the officers or the community.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

How can someone who loves you be okay with leaving things around for you to clean up, knowing it demoralizes you?

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2021

Nothing complicates life, demoralizes man, perverts the normal course of society like the development of venality.

From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee

He said that while Walker was despondent about the change in their finances, his sister hadn’t seemed too demoralized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

But when he and his coaching staff took over the U.S. team in the fall of 2024, following its disastrous performance in the Copa América, he said he inherited a demoralized, dispirited group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

I was scrolling through Instagram the other day, confronted by ageless celebrity after ageless celebrity, feeling demoralized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

There had been no time to organize the gallowglasses, and such of these as did remain with the nobility were demoralized, or leaderless.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Still, he said, it’s been demoralizing to have so many come back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The findings about the bat bridges were demoralizing for Altringham, who during his career appeared at several public inquiries into the impact of road-building projects on bats.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

The author, who once sported a 6 handicap, experienced diminished swing, ball and foot speed, making golf demoralizing from middle tees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Inside the Justice Department, the resolution was demoralizing: “He’s admitted he owes money, and we get money, but everything else about it stinks to high heaven,” said a current DOJ official familiar with the case.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

It was both demoralizing yet heartening to know that life would go on without her.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman