disheartenment

Example Sentences

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The letter, titled "Authors for Libraries," expresses disheartenment about "the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association."

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022

Sometimes waves of disheartenment came on cloudy days of testing, when the sun was hidden and life looked cheerless and hard.

From The First Soprano by Hitchcock, Mary

The Solitary Speaks.—In compensation for much disgust, disheartenment, boredom—such as a lonely life without friends, books, duties, and passions must involve—we enjoy those short spans of deep communion with ourselves and with Nature.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Every word he uttered made more apparent to Cavanagh that Lee Virginia would derive nothing but pain and disheartenment from a knowledge that her father 168 lived.

From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin

This extended also to its use in a continued fever where the same disheartenment was likely to occur with unfortunate consequences on the general condition and above all with disturbance of appetite and of sleep.

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)