demoralize

As a culture, we probably do create unreasonable, sentimental expectations around family that depress and demoralize vast numbers of people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

But the obvious goal is to demoralize federal workers across the board.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025

Dancers accused Star Garden management of introducing arbitrary rules and implementing high drink prices and cover fees in bad faith in an effort to deter customers, demoralize dancers and weaken resolve in contract negotiations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

Others, however, have said that such messaging may have no impact on behavior, or worse, that it may depress and demoralize the public into inaction.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

They were younger, coarser men who enforced every niggling regulation, whose job was to harass and demoralize us.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In a world that often demoralizes rural Americans, and Appalachians in particular, it is imperative that we understand the value of our experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

None of this really demoralizes Im, who knows as well as anybody that his park is a gigantic money sink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

“It demoralizes police officers and that doesn’t do any good for the officers or the community.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

"I feel like that demoralizes a defense," said Thomas.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2012

It demoralizes the poor, and weakens public confidence in wise and good charities.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace

Smith quit the ASA around the same time, demoralized by what he saw as a lack of self-awareness among his colleagues, whose work focused on the world’s wrongs while failing to recognize their own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Now, after that latest detention, Garcia Venegas sounds demoralized.

From Salon ● May 24, 2026

For this reason, according to the researchers, investors who are fans of a losing team will be more demoralized than the winning team’s fans will be exuberant.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026

It’s a tall task given the agency’s demoralized condition.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 8, 2026

Aztec survivors were demoralized by the mysterious illness that killed Indians and spared Spaniards, as if advertising the Spaniards’ invincibility.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Challenges like adjusting to a new language or learning unfamiliar customs and eating different foods can prove exhausting and demoralizing.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

The demoralizing loss sent the Lakers into a three-game tail spin one month before the playoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

The findings about the bat bridges were demoralizing for Altringham, who during his career appeared at several public inquiries into the impact of road-building projects on bats.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

The cost, while small, felt like what one worker described as the “cherry on top” of a demoralizing work culture beset by layoffs and overwhelming workloads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

I’d never been someone who dwelled on the more demoralizing parts of being African American.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama