disheartenment

Example Sentences

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The letter, titled "Authors for Libraries," expresses disheartenment about "the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association."

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022

The limitations of anesthesia, though there was much more of this aid than there has commonly been any idea of, and the frequent occurrence of suppuration must have been constant sources of disheartenment.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

But he was still too much the successful detective to allow his disheartenment to be seen by his admiring subordinate.

From The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Green, Anna Katharine

Every word he uttered made more apparent to Cavanagh that Lee Virginia would derive nothing but pain and disheartenment from a knowledge that her father 168 lived.

From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin

I resume the quill with a feeling of disheartenment.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell