Example Sentences

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Wages are so demoralizingly low, and the work is so grueling, sad, violent, terrifying and disrespected, that personnel shortages plague the field.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2021

The material was weak, sometimes demoralizingly so, and most jokes drew silence.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2019

An unreturnable serve down the middle slammed the door on the chance and Williams, demoralizingly, rocketed her 13th ace and third of the game to hold firm.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2015

They have lost it at home; lost it on the road; lost it by an agonizingly small margin and by a demoralizingly large margin.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2014

The others were torn demoralizingly between these two extremes of distress.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon