Words similar to demoralizing

Example sentences for: demoralizing

How can you use “demoralizing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Talking with Dexter King is a disconcerting, demoralizing experience.
These prognostications--divulged anonymously by "senior military officials" and "Pentagon planners" and "officers who know [the Joint Chiefs'] thinking but decline to be named"--represent a particularly demoralizing aspect of modern war-making: leaking as Pentagon policy.
It is a deeply demoralizing experience for anyone who lacks adequate powers of self-deception and photo approval.
The Democrats' indifference is more demoralizing.
Back then--and is there a more demoralizing phrase?