How To Use Dispiriting In A Sentence
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Economically, we were on the cusp of a new and dispiriting era.
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This is essential if dispiriting reading for the tender-hearted and tough-minded alike.
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To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.
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The sameness of these teen girl movies is dispiriting.
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Breyer, lamenting the court's "dispiriting" decision, said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance.
Supreme Court closes its front doors to the public
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This made a dispiriting start to the evening, which is something one doesn't often say about Balanchine.
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The exchange of ideas and information becomes a battle of wills, a futile and dispiriting activity.
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The rain ran into his eyes, down his body, its blows heavier, more dispiriting --
THE LAST RAVEN
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Under a Republican administration, such cavalier dismissal of urban prosperity, even by a career HUD official, is dispiriting.
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The rapid accumulation of rejections was a dispiriting sign of how much I had aged.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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Comforting to know that I'm not the only one to find this tough, although it's dispiriting to know that some bright bunny will tootle along saying;
Quick crossword No 12,690
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Even then, a good gallop afterwards, or a cigar and a glass of punch, with some lively fellow who is no philosopher, will do him far more good than a fagging walk of so many measured miles, with the studious companion whose head is stuffed as full of such matter as his own, and whose talk will be of disputed passages, and dispiriting anticipations of a "dead floorer" in the schools.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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The story describes a recent exercise involving "top Pentagon leaders" that simulated their response to "a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at paralyzing the nation's power grids, its communications systems or its financial networks" - with "dispiriting" results:
ArmsControlWonk
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The delays are poisoning the political atmosphere and daily making the prospects more and more dispiriting.
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Among the pleasures of this rather dispiriting collection are Chandler's verdicts on his fellow writers.
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It was somewhat dispiriting, to see this ancient archiepiscopal city now sadly deserted.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Watching President Obama address the White House Press Corps apres le deluge is a dispiriting affair.
Bob Jacobson: The President Is Dispiriting
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There was more dispiriting news yesterday for Russia.
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How are we to break free from the dispiriting sequence of dictators and their henchmen?
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But it was too late to stop what should have been a morale-boosting victory from turning into another dispiriting, muddled mess.
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The Marriage Movement recently got hit with some dispiriting news.
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And if, in the depiction of our trade, perceptions of our benignity and those of our power have been locked in a dispiritingly inverse relationship, what, if anything, can be done?
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No doubt taking up intelligent design is a dispiriting business.
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Our lack of progress is very dispiriting.
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Politically, yesterday's election returns were far more dispiriting for the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Boston.
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Their departure brought a dispiriting end to their heady arrival in Baghdad two weeks ago.
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While previewing a new manuscript from my friend Stephen Covey, I came across some terribly dispiriting figures from a Harris Poll of 23,000 full-time U.S. workers in key industries.
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And you know how, when the battery's flat, your car makes a dispiriting grinding noise as you try starting it?
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Barack Obama had levitated himself above the usual, dispiriting muck of politics.
Obama's Likability Gap
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The 71-year-old justice labeled as "dispiriting" the decision to refuse entry through the front steps, although visitors may still leave the building that way.
Justices lament closing main entrance to high court building
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Breyer said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance, and lamented the court's "dispiriting" decision.
Supreme Court to close front doors for security reasons
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A number of dispiriting things have happened recently.
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A paltry 12,000 paid to watch the dispiriting sight.
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And my children's friends have suggested they find reading "serious news" "dispiriting" because it makes them feel helpless.
T r u t h o u t
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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
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What is perhaps most dispiriting about this book is the tone of these criticisms.
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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
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Under these dispiriting circumstances, the few voices calling for toleration were accorded increased attention.
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To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.
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To say that these last years have been dispiriting is an understatement.
Balkinization
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And you know how, when the battery's flat, your car makes a dispiriting grinding noise as you try starting it?
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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"
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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.
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The Leeds defenders who played were subjected to a dispiriting ordeal.
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For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery.
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The examining magistrate 's office was on an upper floor along a dispiritingly yellow-painted corridor.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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Consider the dispiriting view that everybody always acts out of their own self-interest.
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No Greg, YOU stop with the "dispiriting" nonsense and the fraudulent numbers that Clinton is pushing.
The Latest Popular Vote Counts
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The really dispiriting part of this whole show is that the best work, Third Eye, was unsold when we visited.
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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.
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But these are checked by dispiriting reflections on my melancholy temper and imbecility of mind.
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For Campbell, the past few months have seen a rebirth, after a dispiriting struggle in America with a shoulder injury.
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Dispiriting experiences like this will quickly damage the reputation of UK higher education abroad.
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The smaller ones have been closed, so the choice is a drive or a bus to Dulwich Village, or standing in a queue which is never less than 30 people, with four windows out of over 10 open in the grungey and dispiriting Camberwell Green post office.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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A dispiriting run without a league win in September and October was broken by a win at Liverpool in November.
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This is essential if dispiriting reading for the tender-hearted and tough-minded alike.
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The dispiriting fact is that no negotiated two-state agreement is likely in the near future.
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She assembles familiar ingredients in a way that satisfies the everywoman while dispiriting the adventurous.
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This must be one of the most dispiriting exhortations ever issued by a political leader.
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Such a dispiriting fate should not befall Lawrie on this occasion.
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As was the case with Bryan Robson's shoulder, which popped its way dispiritingly through the late-1980s, sound-tracking the decade as clearly as any plunking Roland synthesiser, the temptation is now there to become wrapped up with Carroll's lager tally, to assume a condition of relentless ambient anxiety over the state of his ongoing lager thirst.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
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Keeping vibrations of hope on the pulse through dispiriting times was part of the task she set herself.
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He said it had to be the most dispiriting place in the world.
MR STARLIGHT
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the first dismal dispiriting days of November
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The decision to euthanize is always dispiriting and sometimes heart-wrenching.
Mike Stark: 'No Kill' or Torture? Nathan Winograd and His Animal Sheltering Movement
