How To Use Demoralising In A Sentence
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Instead of demoralizing a people, you have brought them closer together.
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That was completely demoralising, it shattered my confidence, and I was depressed for a year.
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Hoping to forestall Henry by attacking and demoralising his supporters, Stephen laid siege to Wallingford Castle on the Thames, a dozen miles south-east of Oxford.
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The word "demoralising" suggests that they were concerned about the fate of the Jews in Europe.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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And on what credential had Upashantha been drafted in after a demoralising caning against MCC last week that saw him bowl 12 unsuccessful overs for 96 runs?
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`Well, I know it's just harassment, but that can be demoralizing.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Over the last three decades, the increase in underprepared students, coupled with what some faculty believe is administrative pressure to lower standards, has had a demoralizing effect on faculty.
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For most job seekers, finding work can be confusing and demoralising.
The Sun
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And now Trevor Cunrow, University and College Union branch secretary, has branded the policy "demoralising" for the university's academics.
News round-up
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This afternoon, in an altogether less meaningful league fixture between the sides, Lennon returns to the Gorgie ground determined to exorcise the memory of that demoralising day.
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'These charges included complicity with the archtraitor Gorlot in the genocide of the Tanes; furnishing drugs capable of inhibiting and demoralizing certain officials in our government and ¦' Lesatin glanced at his note slate, 'illicit surgery.'
Restoree
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You and I know that any prolonged stint in those boondocks is pretty demoralizing.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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I have not that vicious and demoralizing love of horse-flesh which makes it next to impossible to find a perfectly honest hippophile.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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You and I know that any prolonged stint in those boondocks is pretty demoralizing.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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The conscious infliction of pain _for the sake of the pain_ is against the better nature of man, and it is unsafe and demoralizing for any one to undertake this duty.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
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Single infantry platoons could have provided enough security at these spots and enough commo to prevent the kind of demoralizing events we've seen on TV.
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Seeing this jolly fellow side with the North was allegedly very demoralising for the southern forces.
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You and I know that any prolonged stint in those boondocks is pretty demoralizing.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Lincoln thought twice about extending her sportsmanship to helping the sepultural spiv up as she realized this would be seen as a demoralizing gesture rather than a respectful one.
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Included in the list were ‘the practice of card playing, theatre going, dancing, betting, tippling and participation in the demoralizing influences connected with attendance upon the roller rink.’
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The nights were bitterly cold, the days little warmer, the lack of light demoralizing.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Maybe it has taken the girls this long to fully recover from the demoralizing Arizona road trip.
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There is an eerie kind of certainty about the Jazz style that is more demoralizing than the pyrotechnics other teams rely on, because they are more likely to outthink you than outjump you.
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By the time that Scott came to his 'teens, Mrs. Brenton was doing her level and conscientious best to conceal from him the demoralizing fact of her belief that he could do almost no wrong, and she clung to the modifying _almost_ with a passionate fervour born of her clerical ancestry and her consequent belief in the inherent viciousness of unconverted man.
The Brentons
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And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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But ahead lay a quagmire, a demoralising contest in which progress was unmeasurable and victory unattainable.
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After such a demoralizing outing, it would have taken a miracle to avert a catastrophe.
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He had sent Craig Bellamy through for Liverpool's goal with an astute flick-on but that did not suffice on a demoralising evening when his control, shooting and effort was poor.
Andy Carroll pays the price for lone ranger role at Liverpool
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The word "demoralising" suggests they were concerned about the fate of the Jews in Europe.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Maybe it was suitable for Romans made servile by centuries of demoralizing civil war, but Britons - free-born, free-spoken - were different, were better, were British (Weinbrot).
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Gazing upon them, my heart softened and I almost forgave the gums their manifold iniquities, their diabolical thirst, their demoralizing aspect of precocious senility and vice, their peeling bark suggestive of unmentionable skin diseases, and that system of radication which is nothing short of a scandal on this side of the globe ....
Old Calabria
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It's just that few choose to, because it's exhausting and demoralising permanently to present oneself as a grinning ninny.
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Groups used violence for political or ideological ends, as a means of demoralising their opponents, winning concessions or taking over territory.
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Redundancy can be a demoralising prospect.
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Having a clear strategy in place _before_ you invade is just confusing and demoralizing.
Bash: GOP weighs in quickly
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And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Two vandalism cases, one "demoralising" case, "dissatisfaction" case, trespassing, three assaults, two debt cases with two arrests made and a robbery case in Jangsak were also recorded.
Brudirect News1
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I had scarcely settled down comfortably in my rooms, the northerly aspect of which exposed them to frequent gusts of wind (from which I had practically no protection in the form of heating appliances), and had barely got over the demoralising effect of dysentery, when I fell a victim to a specific Venetian complaint, namely a carbuncle on my leg, as the result of the extreme change of climate and of air.
My Life — Volume 2
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The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Many Americans feared that the apparent Soviet lead in space would become permanent, posing a strategic threat to the security of the United States and its allies and demoralizing anti-communist forces around the globe.
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To pass 500 in your first innings but lose, and for a seventh time in eight championship games at that, is patently demoralising.
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It's a bit demoralising riding into the headwinds, and the sidewinds can be a frightening (being blown out into traffic being a Bad Thing).
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While such bosses may give lip service to good management, their fundamental insecurity squelches the development of their employees and is ultimately demoralizing and bad for business.
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The way you defeat an army, is by demoralizing the individual soldiers in it, or getting them to desert or retreat.
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There is nothing more demoralizing to the torturer, or more inspiring to the enemy he seeks to torture, than the sight of the tortured dying with a smile or even a blessing, physically broken but mentally unvanquished.
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He praised students for boycotting the venue in the Commons yesterday and slammed the promotion as "demoralising".
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It can be very demoralising for the people who do help out to have their efforts unappreciated.
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Things then went steadily downhill for the troubled Scot as he struggled to a demoralising 75 which leaves him in grave jeopardy of missing the cut.
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And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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The aide admitted that the news of the killing was withheld to avoid demoralising the fighters.
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The nights were bitterly cold, the days little warmer, the lack of light demoralizing.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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We were marched back onto the train and laughed at - quite demoralising, really.
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The link is the growing strain on the world"s sole superpower. America is locked into a draining and demoralising war.
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Most are hard working, conscientious, and dedicated to the NHS, and continual criticism is demoralising.
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You and I know that any prolonged stint in those boondocks is pretty demoralizing.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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This is a demoralising message and can discourage women from aiming for the very top.
Times, Sunday Times
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Demoralising idleness and the humiliation of charity or relief work left the unemployed dispirited, apathetic, or divided.
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Instead of demoralizing a people, you have brought them closer together.
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All week long I've been telling everyone within earshot that I'm sick and tired of depressing, demoralizing stories about the baby boomers.
Julia Moulden: It's All Over For The Boomers? Think Again.
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It is quite unjust and sometimes demoralising to see how fate dishes out its own glad tidings.
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GUANGZHOU, China: Japan and North Korea put China and South Korea to the sword at the Asian Games on Monday, inflicting demoralising defeats as the football tournament kicked into gear.
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Rumours of his omniscience were demoralizing.
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On our whirling globe with its transitory, jet-propelled people, isolation is no longer the demoralising fate it once was.
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I'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is.
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It is a condition that is demoralizing in a hundred ways, and is fraught with peril to the republic, peril to society, and peril to all the interests of humanity; and therefore as I would assert, -- and _who would deny_ the supreme right and power of the people to protect the republic from any impending calamity by any just means, _but not by any unjust means_ -- I would claim that it is our right and duty to say that this grand hereditary inequality shall not be perpetual, and that
The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
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I suggest the initial step to halting this demoralising slide toward an anti-life state philosophy is available to us today.
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And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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`Well, I know it's just harassment, but that can be demoralizing.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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On television this sort of thing is enormously effective in demoralizing the innocent and well-mannered who, acting in good faith, do not lie or make personal insults, Buckley has made many honorable men look dishonest fools by his demagoguery, and by the time they recover from his first assault and are ready to retaliate, the program is over.
R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
