Example Sentences

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For Texas, a close game getting turned into a blowout could be a demoralizer.

From Washington Times • Oct. 4, 2014

Party-line critics railed that Hlasko was a "cynic and demoralizer," but a poll of Polish youth named him their favorite writer.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the latter is a great demoralizer of mind as well as body.

From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Days of rain, snow, and zero weather followed, making the routine very disagreeable at times, but never acting as a demoralizer.

From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by Bachman, William Elmer

Thus the sun may be a great demoralizer.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel