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Definition of dispiriting in English: dispiritingadjectivedɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋdəˈspɪrədɪŋ Causing someone to lose enthusiasm and hope; disheartening. it was a dispiriting occasion Example sentencesExamples - Economically, we were on the cusp of a new and dispiriting era.
- The Leeds defenders who played were subjected to a dispiriting ordeal.
- This must be one of the most dispiriting exhortations ever issued by a political leader.
- For Campbell, the past few months have seen a rebirth, after a dispiriting struggle in America with a shoulder injury.
- Among the pleasures of this rather dispiriting collection are Chandler's verdicts on his fellow writers.
- This made a dispiriting start to the evening, which is something one doesn't often say about Balanchine.
- The really dispiriting part of this whole show is that the best work, Third Eye, was unsold when we visited.
- Consider the dispiriting view that everybody always acts out of their own self-interest.
- Such a dispiriting fate should not befall Lawrie on this occasion.
- The dispiriting fact is that no negotiated two-state agreement is likely in the near future.
- The Marriage Movement recently got hit with some dispiriting news.
- There was more dispiriting news yesterday for Russia.
- Their departure brought a dispiriting end to their heady arrival in Baghdad two weeks ago.
- Under these dispiriting circumstances, the few voices calling for toleration were accorded increased attention.
- No doubt taking up intelligent design is a dispiriting business.
- A paltry 12,000 paid to watch the dispiriting sight.
- A number of dispiriting things have happened recently.
- The exchange of ideas and information becomes a battle of wills, a futile and dispiriting activity.
- A dispiriting run without a league win in September and October was broken by a win at Liverpool in November.
- For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery.
Derivativesadverb And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed. Example sentencesExamples - I found it dispiritingly easy to knock together a vastly superior top ten in a couple of minutes.
- 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?
- It is not a matter of sport wishing its life away, when every match is dispiritingly seen as a preparation for some other match.
- And so the deluge of emotion in the concluding scenes comes off as dispiritingly false, even if the storytelling talent which preceded it was undoubtedly real.
Definition of dispiriting in US English: dispiritingadjectivedəˈspɪrədɪŋdəˈspirədiNG Causing someone to lose enthusiasm and hope; disheartening. it was a dispiriting occasion Example sentencesExamples - The Marriage Movement recently got hit with some dispiriting news.
- A dispiriting run without a league win in September and October was broken by a win at Liverpool in November.
- A number of dispiriting things have happened recently.
- Economically, we were on the cusp of a new and dispiriting era.
- No doubt taking up intelligent design is a dispiriting business.
- For Campbell, the past few months have seen a rebirth, after a dispiriting struggle in America with a shoulder injury.
- The really dispiriting part of this whole show is that the best work, Third Eye, was unsold when we visited.
- Consider the dispiriting view that everybody always acts out of their own self-interest.
- This made a dispiriting start to the evening, which is something one doesn't often say about Balanchine.
- The Leeds defenders who played were subjected to a dispiriting ordeal.
- Such a dispiriting fate should not befall Lawrie on this occasion.
- A paltry 12,000 paid to watch the dispiriting sight.
- Their departure brought a dispiriting end to their heady arrival in Baghdad two weeks ago.
- The exchange of ideas and information becomes a battle of wills, a futile and dispiriting activity.
- There was more dispiriting news yesterday for Russia.
- For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery.
- Among the pleasures of this rather dispiriting collection are Chandler's verdicts on his fellow writers.
- Under these dispiriting circumstances, the few voices calling for toleration were accorded increased attention.
- The dispiriting fact is that no negotiated two-state agreement is likely in the near future.
- This must be one of the most dispiriting exhortations ever issued by a political leader.
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