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

Turn more of those selfish interests into unselfish ones, and by so much we change opportunities for disheartenment into their opposite.

From For Auld Lang Syne by Woodward, Ray

Of the voyage itself you are more likely to have heard,—the voyage which lasted a few months, but to earn which the strong-hearted Genoese had borne nearly twenty years of disheartenment and opposition.

From The Spanish Pioneers by Lummis, Charles F.

As Marsh looked about and saw how much Boyd's well-directed energy was accomplishing, he was conscious of a slight disheartenment.

From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

It was in this deepest abyss in the valley of disheartenment that I met a former prison-mate named Kellow; a forger whose time of release from the penitentiary coincided nearly with my own.

From Branded by Lynde, Francis