dispiriting

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

He said the search had been dispiriting - especially when he saw firms repeatedly re-post openings he had been rejected from for lack of experience - and he was not optimistic it would improve soon.

From BBC

A dispiriting choke in the first game being followed by a credible draw in the second to keep hopes alive, only to then go out with a whimper in the final group match.

From BBC

Ireland faded late in the dispiriting loss to the All Blacks in Chicago and took 60 minutes to get going against Japan.

From BBC

It’s a dispiriting irony that just when the world needs more internationalism to address climate change, economic inequality and pandemics, among other devastating realities, it’s also experiencing an upsurge in nationalism propagated by the sovereignistas.

From Salon