dishearten

Many young voters say that would dishearten them.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

I began to wonder what we were going to find in this wasteland, but I didn’t want to say anything to dishearten Duncan.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

In “On Fire,” Naomi Klein’s purpose is not to dishearten but to awaken us to the growing global movement called the Green New Deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Each day, 22 people die in want of organs, which should dishearten all Americans.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

“Do not be dishearten, young bahss. Today, we will be foun, to be true.”

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

“It saddens me, it disgusts me and disheartens me,” Alvarez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

"It disgusts me and disheartens me that people in our nation seem incapable of being decent people."

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022

It allows those who are responsible to remain unaccountable, and it disheartens those who seek to do the right thing.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021

And so the familiarity of McBride’s M.O. disheartens.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019

The trial is a hard one, and whilst we doubt and hesitate under it the universal silence of the vast physical world itself disheartens us.

From Is Life Worth Living? by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

Litberg said he and the crew felt very disheartened about the theft but had been touched by the public’s support that came after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

As the intense heat bears down on a tent where people can charge their devices, we initially meet two young Egyptian men who are visibly tired and disheartened.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Markle had also remarked early on that she was disheartened that so much coverage of her romance focused on her ethnicity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

"Those students who are currently studying in those areas are feeling very disheartened, they're felling ignored and they're feeling quite disrespected."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

I’m looking at apartments on my phone, getting more and more disheartened by the cost and the fear of the complete unknown, when Jamie groans from the other side of the room.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

To see Mulroy’s power being muted by Taylor is disheartening, Arnold said.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

But it’s disheartening that Mr. Kozinski sees the Christa Pike case not as a reason to end executions but instead a reason to switch to a different method: firing squads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

He feels a particular responsibility to remember victims in his coverage and it's especially disheartening when he writes a story about an execution that doesn't make big news.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

What was really disheartening was the fact that day in and day out, they weren’t on the battlefield.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

Jesse and Eric were thankful for their deliverance, but it was shocking, even disheartening, to see that while they’d ridden the Internet hallway across the country, in some ways they hadn’t gone anywhere.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz