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The letter, titled "Authors for Libraries," expresses disheartenment about "the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association."

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022

But he was still too much the successful detective to allow his disheartenment to be seen by his admiring subordinate.

From The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Green, Anna Katharine

It was in this deepest abyss in the valley of disheartenment that I met a former prison-mate named Kellow; a forger whose time of release from the penitentiary coincided nearly with my own.

From Branded by Lynde, Francis

The west wind of this new interest in another's life, this new importance for himself, blew away visibly before her eyes the black clouds of disheartenment.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy

Her courageous toil had gone for nothing—her mother would never even know of it; and it seemed to her in that moment of deep disheartenment as if everything she tried was to be equally ineffectual.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah