dispiriting
adjective
tending to lower the spirit or enthusiasm; depressing; discouraging
dispiritingly
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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
Even before covid risks encouraged remote working, London’s long commute times made for dispiritingly empty work spaces.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022
Instead of the whale teeth and walrus tusks that 19th-century sailors once etched, he uses a contemporary, dispiritingly abundant, analog: discarded plastics.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 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
