Dispiriting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISPIRITING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DISPIRIT, to lower in spirits
• cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope
ADJECTIVE:
• destructive of morale and self-reliance
• disheartening

Words related to DISPIRITING

disheartening18 dispirit11 dispirited14 dispiritingly20 dispirits12

Words that contain DISPIRITING

dispiritingly20

How to use DISPIRITING in a sentence

• The day was a bleak one, dispiriting in itself even to those who could go about the streets and lose themselves in their tasks and round of duties.
• It was grey, damp, and dismal, one of those days which in the Highlands are often so very cheerless and dispiriting.
• Half-way up the long, straight, dispiriting street stood a cottage larger and neater-looking than the rest.
• Even in the gloom, there was something forlorn and dispiriting in his walk.
• However, opposed as I am to the doctrines of Schopenhauer and Leopardi, I will admit that the shores of the Caspian did seem rather gloomy and dispiriting.
• Life in the cavern goes on with its usual dispiriting monotony.
• It was so utterly dispiriting to see men positively turning away from the means of obtaining good crops, and then crying out that they were ruined.
• But the most dispiriting part of the commencement was the length of time to wait before a crop came.
• That came, and with the same dispiriting result to Gilbert Fenton.
• The horse of Gustavus, galloping along the lines, conveyed to the whole army the dispiriting intelligence that their beloved chieftain had fallen.
• His messengers conveyed the dispiriting intelligence to the devoted city, which learned thereby that it must rely wholly upon its own exertions.
• It was in the midst of all these dispiriting circumstances that I was called upon to take one of the strongest resolutions which can occur in the private life of a female.
• They saw their comrades struck down by cholera, sunstroke, and dysentery, more dispiriting a thousand times than the daily casualties in action.
• That was why the empty space of the clearing affected him with a physical shrinking, why the neatly arranged interior of his cabin seemed hollow, abandoned, terribly dispiriting.
• Disillusionment followed disillusionment, each one painful and dispiriting in itself, but they came at long enough intervals for him to find a great deal of pleasure in between.
• Have you ever fished for pickerel through a hole in the ice? If so you will recall that it is chilly and rather dispiriting work, especially if the fish are shy.
• The very reaction begotten of unwonted quietude acted on his temperament with a dispiriting rather than a soothing effect.
• Defeats in the field and Copperheadism at home combined in their dispiriting and deadly work.
• When the battalion turned out and formed to march to breakfast a more dispiriting day could not be imagined.
• She has less work to do, it is less monotonous and dispiriting, she meets a far greater variety of men, and they are of classes distinctly beyond her own.

Similar words containing PIRIT without suffix ing and without prefix dis

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