Words similar to disheartening

Example sentences for: disheartening

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

Bedraggled, starving and exhausted after a final four days crushed in box cars, we were, I learned later, the most disheartening lot of ragmen they had seen in their more than three years of imprisonment.
Seeing Newt so shrunken is somewhat disheartening.
His confirmation in office was "thoroughly disheartening," it said.
It is certainly disheartening, but I have hope--which brings me to the Internet, which I am thrilled to talk about all day and night.
In many Western countries and Brazil (the sources of the majority of the available data on the subject), the impressive drop in mortality due to HIV following increased access to ART is coupled with a disheartening rise in the number of new cases of HIV, as emphasis and funding are shifted from prevention to treatment [2].