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

Dancers accused Star Garden management of introducing arbitrary rules and implementing high drink prices and cover fees in bad faith in an effort to deter customers, demoralize dancers and weaken resolve in contract negotiations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

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

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

None of this really demoralizes Im, who knows as well as anybody that his park is a gigantic money sink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

“The use of the word ‘inmate’ further dehumanizes and demoralizes them,” he said in Ms. Hochul’s press release.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

“It almost demoralizes you playing against that because it’s hard to get a clean look.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2019

Honesty is our normal expression, and any departure from it demoralizes and taints the whole character.

From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“I think the greatest danger we have in this moment is being demoralized and being discouraged and not claiming our power — our vote is our power.”

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 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

It’s possible those demoralized job seekers are pushing the participation rate lower, said Martin of Oxford Economics.

From MarketWatch ● 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

His officers had been demoralized by Kehaar’s unexpected attack.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

They seized the football, spun their wheels and corkscrewed even deeper into the NFL basement with a demoralizing 24-16 defeat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

It’s unheard of, an abuse of power, and demoralizing to make senior leadership submit to testing en masse.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Even when I know I’m delivering at a high level, being asked for constant updates on my progress can feel demoralizing.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 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

Snow falls in dozens of ways, in heavy overnight dumps and daytime, sideways squalls, in demoralizing sloppy sleet and fairy-tale billows of fluff.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama