Example Sentences

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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

Very little had been agreed between the parties, the judge noted, and the number of issues in dispute was "dispiritingly large".

From BBC • May 21, 2022

Unfortunately, even by the relaxed standards of trash cinema, “Primal” is dispiritingly tame.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2019

But in the past year or so, the dust has started to settle, and the landscape it’s revealed is dispiritingly familiar.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2019

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