- past tense form of dishearten.
- past participle of dishearten.
disheartened
Example Sentences
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I am disheartened by the merely contemporary and hence indifferent to every fad.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
She says she "wasn't as persistent as I should have been" when it came to trying out for different roles and easily "got disheartened", thinking "maybe this isn't for me".
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
The barren sands yielded nothing and the team, disheartened, headed back to their camp.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Mannani accepts that her lawyers are entitled to a cut for their work on the case, but said she was disheartened watching the numbers of cases suddenly skyrocket this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
You might think that this encounter left me disheartened.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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