as in to discourage
to lessen the courage or confidence of
dispirited by the overwhelming amount of information needed to write the report
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Recent Examples of dispirit
After a honeymoon research period, Schlamminger at times found the work dispiriting.
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Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
All three are mired in different, dispiriting versions of mid-life crises, and get involved in a kinky kinda sorta love triangle.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
24 Mar. 2026
After their excellent but somewhat overlooked 2023 album 3D Country — which occasionally evokes the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — the band was feeling dispirited.
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Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2026
Bay Hill may feel like unfinished business for Morikawa after a dispiriting runner-up finish in 2025.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for dispirit
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
All three are mired in different, dispiriting versions of mid-life crises, and get involved in a kinky kinda sorta love triangle.
—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
24 Mar. 2026
After their excellent but somewhat overlooked 2023 album 3D Country — which occasionally evokes the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — the band was feeling dispirited.
—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2026
Bay Hill may feel like unfinished business for Morikawa after a dispiriting runner-up finish in 2025.
—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for dispirit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispirit
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In 2011, the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission determined that the crisis was triggered in part by Greenspan’s failure to discourage trade in securities backed by subprime mortgage loans amid an unsustainable housing boom and his promotion of financial industry deregulation.
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The color yellow attracts yellow jackets and other pollinating insects, so the all-red design increases your chances of attracting hummingbirds and discourages bees and wasps from staking claim over the sweet nectar.
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Trump’s rogue moves have frustrated Thune’s party regularly over the past two months.
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David Rubenstein, the son of a Baltimore postal worker, was frustrated in a Washington law firm when he was both inspired by a wildly successful leveraged buyout and unnerved by a book that claimed the odds of successfully starting a company plummets after 37.
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“Dispirit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispirit. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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