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• v  take away the enthusiasm of
• s  destructive of morale and self-reliance

• The most disheartening charges to come out of the trial, however, concerned not coke but amphetamines.
• It can be disheartening when scholars find inaccurate information on the Web in their topic area.
• This was disheartening, but I still believed that what I had written was right.

• dishearten
• put off
• demoralizing
• demoralising
• dispiriting

• hearten

News & Articles

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• Under-21s Review: Why England's Future Looks Dark Ahead of World Cup 2014
  Played three, lost three: That's the record England's U21 side leave the European Championships in Israel with after a dismal, disheartening week. Success breeds success, and this competition is the type you want to be excelling in. Germany won it in 2009 using Sami Khedira , Mats Hummels , Manuel Neuer , Mesut Oezil and Marcel Schmelzer   . Look where those players are now. For England, it was ...
  June 12, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Mattingly pulls the plug on League as closer
  After Brandon League allowed four runs in the ninth inning in a disheartening loss to the D-backs on Monday night, manager Don Mattingly has turned to Kenley Jansen as the Dodgers' closer.
  June 12, 2013 - Major League Baseball
• Study reveals 8K elderly go hungry in Orlando
  A study reveals a disheartening statistic in Orlando: Nearly 8,000 seniors go hungry every day. Charles Bennett spent the morning at Second Harvest Food Bank, boxing up food for the Haven of Hope Ministries in Orlando where lately, many of the people who need food are seniors. "A lot more and more older people are coming in," Bennett said. Monday, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer opened a summit on ...
  June 11, 2013 - WFTV 9 Orlando

Quotes

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• Dustin Brown in ESPN
  This is way out by the Syrian border, an area where we do think in fact some suicide bombers are able to come across the border. It's an area that is very, very remote - quite small villages out there - and it was disheartening for us, too,... David Petraeus http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFjHEm6jiWNJZUKMDq-DzdIyN3nNw Forbes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/15/ap4024275.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHoNC2crpgfX57Ei5M7vdeJXsQdNg Aug 15, 2007 28433 37334 dished I just dished it wide and cut for the net," Brown said, "and there was a rebound sitting for me."