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

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

Of the voyage itself you are more likely to have heard,—the voyage which lasted a few months, but to earn which the strong-hearted Genoese had borne nearly twenty years of disheartenment and opposition.

From The Spanish Pioneers by Lummis, Charles F.

I resume the quill with a feeling of disheartenment.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

Fatigue and worry are succeeded by profound disheartenment.

From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah