dispirit

Example Sentences

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Few sights could be more dispiriting to the rest of English soccer than Liverpool cruising to a championship last spring and immediately adding half a billion dollars’ worth of talent.

From The Wall Street Journal

It took years of layoffs and dispirited resignations for the Salinas Californian staff to finally tick down to zero.

From Los Angeles Times

“On its face it’s very dispiriting,” said Geoff Beckwith, executive director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, which until last week had been nudging towns to develop civility guidelines for meetings.

From New York Times

That conversation, in which Burns warned of the consequences if Russia were to deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, was “pretty dispiriting,” Burns said.

From Washington Times

The playwright has said her mother told her the original conclusion was too dispiriting.

From Washington Post