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Example sentences for: dispiriting

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An oddity in the Post story: It claims that "for the president's weary defenders," the judge's remark was a "dispiriting development."
It is, indeed, dispiriting that someone with Mr. Springer's history might have been considered simply because of name recognition.
It said his record so far is "dispiriting."
Otherwise, "[d]ecadence has rarely looked so pathetic, lethargic and dispiriting" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times ). (Watch the trailer.)
A final article calls for "monumental tax cuts" to restore faith in individualism, abolish the tax code's dispiriting progressivity, and pare government down so it can't do much.