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:

Seeing Newt so shrunken is somewhat disheartening.
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.
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.
His confirmation in office was "thoroughly disheartening," it said.
The thing I find most disheartening about Rosen's book is probably best summed up by an oft-used Shakespeare line: "He jests at scars that never felt a wound."