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US
/dɪˈmɔɹəˌɫaɪzd/
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ADJECTIVE
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made less hopeful or enthusiastic
the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest
felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem
desperate demoralized people looking for work
How To Use demoralized In A Sentence
- This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases.
- Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
- Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
- ‘People are very demoralized and unhappy,’ a former administration official said.
- Many opponents of the war were demoralised.
- In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
- But, privately, he confided to friends that he was demoralized, even tempted to quit.
- They performed in a responsible manner, and toward the defeated, demoralized Germans they were sensitive, caring and compassionate.
- Producers demoralised by the lack of enthusiasm for hard news are looking to jump ship. Times, Sunday Times
- The troops were thoroughly demoralized by this set - back.
