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dispiriting

adjective as in depressing

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The Bills bounce back after a dispiriting loss to the Patriots, with Josh Allen leading the way.

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

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

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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.

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Could life at Manchester United get any more dispiriting?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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