dispiritingly
- a word derived from dispiriting.
Example Sentences
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Delightful though the show is, there’s something dispiritingly circular, or insular, about the potential best musical winner of 2026 harking back to musicals of the middle decades of the 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Maintaining any kind of rhythm was impossible, though, because her playing partner Jenny Shin was dispiritingly slow.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024
With all that groundbreaking, perhaps it is no surprise that the production is otherwise very conventional, sometimes dispiritingly so.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2023
So while it celebrates women who break the mold, the show itself is deeply — and dispiritingly — conventional.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022
It had almost the same dispiritingly drab quality and the same bottom fine: an inhospitable place for a bright young lad with no friends to be living.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
