disheartened
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I am disheartened by the merely contemporary and hence indifferent to every fad.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
A pair of jeans could easily be a size 10 by one brand and a size 14 in another, leaving customers confused and disheartened.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025
Olwande Akoth, a designer showcasing her upcycled kimonos at the fashion show, once traded in second-hand bales but often felt disheartened by their poor quality.
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
The small tribe of Iks, formerly nomadic hunters and gatherers in the mountain valleys of northern Uganda, have become celebrities, literary symbols for the ultimate fate of disheartened, heartless mankind at large.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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