disheartening

Examples of dishearten

dishearten
On days when they receive disheartening test results or experience unfamiliar symptoms, they are often more anxious and more in need of a supportive listener.
It is certainly not a book for anyone who gets disheartened by the sight of a page covered in equations.
And later, it moved those who were repelled and disheartened by the conflicts and hatreds in the society about them.
They were determined to finish off a visibly disheartened and disorganised army by concentrating superior forces and the methodical use of encirclement and outflanking.
Others, however, became disheartened and even disillusioned with organised religion and never darkened a chapel door again.
Needless to say, the student at school 8 was disheartened by this reception of his piece and became increasingly less engaged in composing as the year progressed.
The laughs dashed and disheartened him.
Rather, its text reveals it to have been erected by an altogether different party, to be a record of proud satisfaction in their achievement of constructive recovery following disheartening misfortune.
Had they understood every word of his scoldings, they would have been made to feel terribly disheartened.
We must not be disheartened by this setback.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Is it not disheartening to the staff to have to work in these conditions?
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