dishearten

Many young voters say that would dishearten them.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

I began to wonder what we were going to find in this wasteland, but I didn’t want to say anything to dishearten Duncan.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

In “On Fire,” Naomi Klein’s purpose is not to dishearten but to awaken us to the growing global movement called the Green New Deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Each day, 22 people die in want of organs, which should dishearten all Americans.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

“Do not be dishearten, young bahss. Today, we will be foun, to be true.”

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

“It saddens me, it disgusts me and disheartens me,” Alvarez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

"It disgusts me and disheartens me that people in our nation seem incapable of being decent people."

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022

It allows those who are responsible to remain unaccountable, and it disheartens those who seek to do the right thing.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021

And so the familiarity of McBride’s M.O. disheartens.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019

Many sound bees had nursed on that frame, well knowing their work was useless; but the actual sight of even useless work destroyed disheartens a good worker.

From Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard

The barren sands yielded nothing and the team, disheartened, headed back to their camp.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Abby, now 21, said she was "disheartened" to hear there were still issues with bullying.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Buchalter added that investors were likely more disheartened by Broadcom’s announcement of a fifth unnamed customer that it will deliver $1 billion of custom chips to late next year.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

As time dragged on and none of the agreed-upon policies were implemented, however, many residents became disheartened.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

After decades of looking forward to the freedom of a less stressful lifestyle, it is disheartening to be faced with difficult choices when income and savings fall short.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

What’s disheartening is that she pretends there is no connection, telling Vogue Italia last week, “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks to me, and that is the opposite of making art.”

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

"It was so disheartening to be told, until I was finally diagnosed in my mid-30s, that my symptoms were just part of being a woman," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

We’ll see several startling upsets in this round that won’t end up mattering, along with a disheartening number of 0-0 and 1-1 draws.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

It must have been a bitter disappointment for Gene Johnson, so disheartening that he was never able to bring himself to publish an account of the expedition and its findings.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston