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• v  lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
• s  destructive of morale and self-reliance

• Short Takes B O O K S CLASS ACTION By Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler In a suspenseful narrative, this book recounts in dispiriting detail the abuse suffered by the first .
• Years of exasperating experimentation, countless mishaps and dispiriting failures have produced a technique so finely tuned that it can tackle even the most stubborn cloning .
• By now most Americans are all too used to the dispiriting reports of the security situation in Afghanistan.

• depress
• deject
• cast down
• get down
• dismay
• dispirit
• demoralize
• demoralise
• demoralizing
• demoralising
• disheartening

• elate

News & Articles

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• Seattle Sounders at a loss after collapsing at RSL: "There is no excuse," says Eddie Johnson
  They said, this time, it would be different. It wasn’t. In not so dissimilar fashion as their “rock-bottom” loss earlier this year, the Seattle Sounders again fell in dispiriting fashion at Real Salt Lake on Saturday . The 2-0 scoreline was actually worse than their earlier loss and it included an almost shocking shot disparity — 17-2 — as the Sounders tied a franchise low with just two attempts ...
  June 23, 2013 - Major League Soccer
• Cards plan on being creative in using Fitzgerald
  07:09 AM ET 06.19 | So dispiriting was the Cardinals ' season that it helped drag Larry Fitzgerald down with it. Enter new coach Bruce Arians, who is focused on returning Fitzgerald to greatness with the help of quarterback Carson Palmer . During a Tuesday appearance on NFL Netowrk's "NFL Total Access," NFL.com's Ian Rapoport discussed a recent conversation with Arians.
  June 19, 2013 - Sports Illustrated
• The 10 Worst Majors for Finding a Good Job
  It has become a dispiriting summer ritual: Thousands of students graduate from college every year only to discover they still don’t have what it takes to land a decent-paying job. But they do have a huge bill for college that … Continue reading ?
  June 18, 2013 - The Exchange via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• John McCain in Voice of America
  A withdrawal date only emboldens al-Qaida and the Taliban, while dispiriting our Afghan partners and making it less likely that they will risk their lives to take our side in this fight,said John McCain.
• Andrew Strauss in This is Nottingham
  We've been working really hard for the last few weeks, starting with the last three Tests and, after the Twenty20 defeat, the guys have been putting it in really hard,said captain Andrew Strauss. "That's quite dispiriting if you don't get...
• Mia Farrow in Washington Post
  Farrow said her convoy stopped on a seemingly desolate road in northwestern Central African Republic after passing "burned village after burned village after burned village _ it was numbing and dispiriting."