dishearten

And if your attitude is that you don't and that we are, in fact, scamming the system in some way, then it's so disheartening.

“There are many levels to this but what’s so disheartening is to see the few wealthy elite say, ‘We got ours.

“I think everyone would be super disheartened to learn that maybe it would be human-caused,” Harper said, confirming that there is a remote trail that provides hikers access to the tree.

“A lot of these folks are contributors to our community and to our neighborhoods, so it’s just disheartening,” Leon said.

“It is disheartening, unfortunate, but perhaps not surprising that the board has chosen an adversarial course that the facts so clearly cannot support,” he said in a statement.