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dispiriting

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1. dispiriting - Adjective

2. dispiriting - Verb

4. dispiriting - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Dispirit

Source: Webster's dictionary

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How dispiriting I find it, even after all my personal triumphs, that we must grow up and grow sad, that we must age, weaken, and in time go home to our long home in the ground, and that even golden lads and girls all must, as chimney sweepers, come to dust. Joseph Heller

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. Joe Klein

I sense that many readers want nothing more complex or challenging than wind-up toys. It's dispiriting. Caitlín R. Kiernan

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. Robert Falcon Scott

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. Bjorn Lomborg

Drops were a problem, particularly when Shelley was under center, but more dispiriting was the lack of explosive plays. Source: Internet

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