dispiriting
dis pi ri ting
- v lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- s destructive of morale and self-reliance
- 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.
- 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 .