[
US
/dɪˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dɪspˈɪɹɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪspˈɪɹɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- destructive of morale and self-reliance
How To Use dispiriting In A Sentence
- At present the day was drizzling and chilly, while the huge volumes of smoke from a whole forest of factory chimneys tended to impart a deeper shade of dismalness to the dispiriting landscape.
- Here's one bit of news chez Juliette - I've finally struggled back into my swimming cozzie, stuck on my goggles, and plunged back into the cold and dispiriting pool of online dating - only to immediately come face to face with three drowned wasps and a floating condom. Dater Archives
- What is perhaps most dispiriting about this book is the tone of these criticisms.
- It was wildly dispiriting, yes, but as policy it was actually effective in stanching a financial meltdown - you only have to look to Europe where the clamoring for a similar program grows louder every day their current mess deepens. Benj Hewitt: A Liberal Defends Obama
- Under these dispiriting circumstances, the few voices calling for toleration were accorded increased attention.
- To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.
- To say that these last years have been dispiriting is an understatement. Balkinization
- And you know how, when the battery's flat, your car makes a dispiriting grinding noise as you try starting it?
- It is kind of dispiriting to realize how batshit a lot of the Obombers really are. Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"
- How dispiriting it must be for young Scottish players as talented as Craig Gordon to see their prospects diminished by the unholy alliance of the media and the Old Firm-driven football establishment.