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disheartening
[ dis-hahr-tn-ing ]
adjective
- depressing a person’s hope, courage, or spirits; discouraging:
It's been disheartening to see some of her old habits and fears returning, even though they aren't as bad as when she was much younger.
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Other Words From
- dis·heart·en·ing·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disheartening1
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Example Sentences
Because Walters's story of triumph is the prime thread of the documentary it overshadows the more disheartening stories.
Nevertheless, it's somewhat disheartening to see so relatively tame a documentary provoking such heated reactions.
Elaine McIntosh and Isis Cox endured an even more disheartening ride from Buffalo.
Nguyen uses magic realism to tell this story, mixing the surreal with the real, to effectively tell the disheartening tale.
The sight of him was made all the more disheartening by the thought of everything Etan Patz might have become.
She poured out some chocolate, took it hurriedly, and quitted the room, leaving her husband in a disheartening reverie.
Things are going on here in their usual gently disheartening gait.
At first sight it seems disheartening to find that physicians are so easily humbugged.
We explored almost every bay and inlet we came across, but of course always with the same disheartening result.
The condition of these articles, too, is most disheartening.
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