disheartening 1 of 2

present participle of dishearten

disheartening

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disheartening
Verb
Seeing that textbook go to waste felt very disheartening. Sami Khan, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Expert breaks down 'disheartening' normalization of political violence. FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025 The Dilemma for Women Leaders For women in leadership, this moment can feel particularly disheartening. C200, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Headwinds can be disheartening, but lawmakers don’t easily give up. Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025 But for a teenager itching to see more of Britain—and eventually the world—that lack of curiosity was disheartening. Rohan Banerjee, Time, 23 Aug. 2025 So, the idea of the teen driver owing an additional $4,200 on the SUV after paying fees and putting money down ($1,500-$2,000) is disheartening to say the least. Charles Singh, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disheartening
Verb
  • As far as Young goes, the Week 1 performance was discouraging.
    Mike Kaye September 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Speaker Johnson is giving the high ground to the Democrats by discouraging Thomas Massie's petition.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For some—for me—the experience of certain kinds of anxiety has a disconcerting synesthetic quality.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The disconcerting answer is that nobody knows.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But the drum sound wasn’t nearly as dismaying as the studio’s piano, which kept slipping out of tune.
    Peter Ames Carlin, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • With a six-game deficit in the American League wild card hunt entering play on Monday, the Angels may be only a few series away from repeating their dismaying playbook from 2023.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • To have all that flipped on its side, turned around 180 degrees and made to seem dark and sinister, that's very demoralizing and heartbreaking.
    Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Watching what’s unfolding around us can be demoralizing.
    Stacey Abrams, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Some folks harbor a dispiriting conviction that governments are unable to handle the simplest task.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Let’s establish all of that up front after the Carolina Panthers’ dispiriting, 20-3 exhibition loss at Houston Saturday.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • States would still govern access, DEA oversight would remain, and businesses would face the daunting task of complying with FDA standards and pharmaceutical-level GMP requirements.
    Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The psychological journey Mutabazi has taken is, in some ways, more daunting than the physical distances he’s traveled.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Either way, a wrist injury would help explain the rather troubling start for Thomas, who was profiled to be one of the best wide receivers in all of football coming into the 2025 season.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Regardless of which direction the program goes at Head Coach, or if Iamaleava will stay for his junior season, the fact that UCLA is already looking towards next year in Week 3 is troubling enough.
    Tyler Small, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ponder the grocery categories tracked by local CPIs to see which California supermarket aisles are most troublesome to your household’s food budget.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • For Wild fans, one more potentially troublesome factor iis the history of moves like that one.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025

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