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Example sentences for: dispiriting

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It is, indeed, dispiriting that someone with Mr. Springer's history might have been considered simply because of name recognition.
Otherwise, "[d]ecadence has rarely looked so pathetic, lethargic and dispiriting" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times ). (Watch the trailer.)
It said his record so far is "dispiriting."
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.
An oddity in the Post story: It claims that "for the president's weary defenders," the judge's remark was a "dispiriting development."