dispiriting

Before the series, in the wake of four consecutive dispiriting losses, Roberts called on his team to show more focus and urgency.

But that only makes the faintheartedness of corporate America all the more dispiriting.

If the defeats in India were alarming, and losses to Australia and Afghanistan in Lahore dispiriting, the thrashing by South Africa in Karachi was the moment England's winter plunged to the depths.

Could life at Manchester United get any more dispiriting?

For Katie Porter, the trend is a dispiriting move in the wrong direction.