How To Use Dispirited In A Sentence
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Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.
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I realized how our leadership brings forth mediocre organizations and dispirited people.
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Most of the children are dispirited because of some adolescent problem.
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There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future.
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The Daily Telegraph said Capello desperately needs to shake up his team to get the best out of players like Frank Lampard and a "dispirited" Rooney before the final group C game with Slovenia.
The Age News Headlines
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But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies.
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This was unforgivable form - but I was hot, sweating, badly sunburnt, my feet were freezing, wet and blistered, I was frantic with thirst, hungry and utterly dispirited.
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You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true.
Recovering From Religious Abuse
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I take objection to being grouped in with the dispirited parents.
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He was a dispirited man, on the brink of destruction by the abrasive world of society and business.
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That alone was easily enough to overwhelm their depleted and dispirited numbers, but the army outside also numbered several battalions of foot soldiers.
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I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
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Came the last act and the conviction among the frozen and dispirited cast that in front of us were overcoated tailor's dummies.
GOODBYE CURATE
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I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
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The setting of the poem is a midtown bar where the poet sits musing dispiritedly about the onset of WWII.
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He came to Devizes in 1989 to take over a rather dispirited congregation, which had suffered from constant changes in clergy over a short period.
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A stooping, dispirited Adam and a wistful Eve walk slowly through a lush garden with gravid fruit trees and a profusion of animals, as a flaming red cherub, his sword raised, glowers against a possible return.
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Standing in the middle of the Main Street, looking at the crowd in front of him, his light-heartedness was quickly overwhelmed by dispiritedness.
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And while seemingly well adjusted, Ruben too is dispirited, trading on the bodies and brainlessness of his fighters for a few dollars and the dream of the big time.
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All Montanes, a steady baseliner playing his 10th French Open, had to do was win two out of the next three points against a wounded, dispirited opponent who couldn't run and couldn't serve harder than 80 mph.
Hard-Luck Story for Fognini
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Any bars that are still left standing have dispirited serving girls.
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He is author of "Allenby," "A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture" and the forthcoming "The Settlers & the Struggle for the Meaning of Zionism.
WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
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Seven days previously they were dispirited and downhearted after being well beaten by Salford yet by Sunday they'd recovered to the point of putting on one of their most complete displays of the campaign.
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Trojans put their recent woes behind them as they brushed aside a dispirited Beckwithshaw side.
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Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe.
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As Argentina's presidential election approaches, many dispirited voters are planning on turning in blank ballots or not voting at all.
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She refused to be dispirited by her long illness.
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The dispirited day, is in the ruins quiet dying embers.
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Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life.
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She had had enough of that dark dispirited house with its gloomy, self-flagellatory paintings and its almost relentless aura of doom.
Beneath an opal moon
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By rights, it should be obvious cannon fodder for a dispirited Opposition.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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He continues however to sit croaking at Ghent, chagrinned, discontented, and dispirited.
Robert Morris
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The "dispirited" part is an obvious gaffe, but it seems that it's entirely possible to be a "conservative liberal," depending on what you mean by those terms.
My campaign will be dispirited, because I'm a proud conservative liberal...
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A year ago the National caucus was dispirited and dejected.
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Handed a dispirited, defeated force, he instilled into it the will to win.
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He reached the edge of the penalty area and the dispirited Croatia defence opened up for him.
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The cast members are illiterate, dispirited convicts with a leading lady who is about to be hanged.
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A 21-year-old secretary related how she lined up for several hours, but became dispirited watching young girls argue furiously with elderly women over queue-jumping.
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the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances
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Rational Review
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She never looked dejected or dispirited, though she had all the reason.
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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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The public, after a dispirited delay, revolted.
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I tried to start an office lacrosse pool, but everyone was too dispirited to participate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law
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Older people can quickly become dispirited and depressed by chronic illness.
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Out of chaos emerges dispiritedness, because it is impossible to make a reasonable choice.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
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Even though the dispiritedness of some of our colleagues disempowered the organizations, they continued to renew themselves in quality and in quantity went from 20 groups to 40 groups.
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In effect, they are a kind of ongoing social experiment in how long people can live in a state of chronic poverty, and dispiritedness, before their bodies give way and their health falls apart.
November 2003
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The archetypal sin in the Bible is, we see, the sin of dispiritedness, of self-deflation that inevitably leads to more horrible sins.
The Ten Commandments
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The talk was that the Irish would lose by a ton but Gatland's previously dispirited team conceded a late try and went down 18-16.
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Masters, the 33-year-old Essex seamer, is in many ways the archetypal journeyman cricketer but here he seized the advantage of a helpful pitch and a dispirited opposition to claim the outrageous figures of eight for 10 as Leicestershire were brushed aside for 34 in 88 balls.
Essex v Leicestershire | County Championship match report
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Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
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Like McCain, I'm not dispirited by the notion that Congress will have to revisit the issue every few years.
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The bosses of the leather-curing establishments he met were by and large a dispirited lot.
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All who went out, returned back dispirited from the vain and weary search, and even the most sanguine began to grow sick at heart.
Parables From Nature
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An aging and dispirited workforce cannot continue under the stress much longer.
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Finally, the dispirited animal would come to accept that from now on, it had exchanged freedom for servitude.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Accordingly, as a gloss on the whole affair, the young gallant dispiritedly notes ‘Tricks are repaid’.
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Some dispirited broadcasters left radio and television altogether.
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‘I really need to start looking at these,’ she said unenthusiastically, picking up the nearest college prospectus to her and flicking through dispiritedly.
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a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
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One of the chief advantages of flow is that it enables people to escape the state of ‘psychic entropy,’ the distraction, depression, and dispiritedness that constantly threaten them.
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Everyone was tired and worried and the rubberneckers were making them feel "dispirited", he said.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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He said that hundreds of Hamas's fighters has been killed and the mood was 'dispirited', with Hamas launching fewer than 30 rockets a day compared with 70 or 80 when the war started.
Home | Mail Online
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And it shows in a general -- I think it ` s a dispiritedness you ` re seeing about the choices in the field.
CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007
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He does tend to carry an air of dispiritedness about him," admitted Mingo.
Darkness of the Light
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Germania Ford; but the resultless fighting dispirited and demoralized the people, while it only harassed and weakened the army.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty, the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper.
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I'm not sure whether this is enlightenment or dispiritedness on my part.
Class Warfare and "Mary Poppins"
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This was a blow from which the already dispirited Newman never fully recovered.
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Never have I seen enviros so dispirited or in such disarray.
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A Broken System: The problem of combat stress and reintegration is an old one extending back veterans of the Civil War who we labeled as having "soldier's heart" -- a crushed state of mind that led to withdrawal and dispiritedness.
Dr. Anthony Hassan: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Who Will Provide Mental Health Care to Our Veterans and Their Families
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Kildare were a dispirited bunch but it was to get much worse before a late rally put a little respectability on the final scoreline.
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But I want those number on that Republican turnout because the adjustive we've heard is dispirited.
CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2008
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Behind in races, he would find himself becoming dispirited and not fighting as hard as he should.
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They looked dispirited as they trudged off for half-time cuppas but they had a rejuvenated look on the restart and took just seven minutes to draw level.
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I even invited her to the mall, and I was dispirited when she turned me down.
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By rights, it should be obvious cannon fodder for a dispirited Opposition.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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I left eventually at six o'clock feeling utterly dispirited and depressed.
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An outsider could immediately sense the dispirited pessimism that overtook Azariya.
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He is understandably dispirited by the accession of the new pontiff, but expresses his concerns in language that seems to me overwrought and misplaced.
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Handed a dispirited, defeated force, he instilled into it the will to win.
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a dispirited and divided Party
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a "prolonged period" and said businesses are "dispirited" by tax and regulatory changes.
FXstreet.com
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On an island in the middle of the pond, cormorants hunch like dispirited monks.
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He took a broken and dispirited fleet and turned it quickly into the force that would win the Pacific theater.
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Even more dispiritedly, the old remedies to these ills no longer inspire confidence.
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The ragged and dispirited Americans made camp at Valley Forge.
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It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring.
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But for the occasional doldrums or moments of dispiritedness, I like the following remedies:
Gentle Healing for Baby and Child
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According to a "dispirited" WikiLeaks activist, the group's "secrecy and compartmentalization are apparently hindering its operations," since only
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The ragged and dispirited Americans made camp at Valley Forge.
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Establishment pols say political infeasibility makes single-payer healthcare a non-starter, but the recent political tragicomedy unfolding in VFWs and gymnasiums across America have only left the Left dispirited and brought the Right, smelling blood, to the warpath.
Daniel Denvir: Why Bad Healthcare Policy Makes For Bad Politics, Too
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Finally, the dispirited animal would come to accept that from now on, it had exchanged freedom for servitude.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Most importantly, we have tools to fight the pitiful dispiritedness that has taken over newsrooms nationally.
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Even a flagging campaign can be presented as evidence of McCain's fundamental goodness; noting that McCain seemed "dispirited" in early 2007, Newsweek offered, "It may be because he is not, at heart, a politician.
David Brock and Paul Waldman: Excerpt from Free Ride: John McCain and the Media
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Anyway, I was quite dispirited at only receiving four calls in total from this ad.
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Know then, I have made divers desperate leaps at those upper regions; but always fell backward into this vapour-pit, exhausted and dispirited by those ineffectual efforts; and here we poor valetudinarians pant and struggle, like so many Chinese gudgeons, gasping in the bottom of a punch-bowl.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Both pieces deserve much better, though their strength shines through even this dispirited sight-reading.
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They are more dispirited today than they have been in years.