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dishearteningly

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  • adverb In a disheartening manner.

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Examples

  • I also know that it is terribly, dishearteningly, and painfully true.

    Dear President Obama #245: Just another manic Monday… 2009

  • Both in life, among people I've met over the years, and as a reporter who covered court cases — especially as a reporter covering court cases — I've encountered what's essentially this same scenario, repeated again and again and again, so dishearteningly common, in which an older male ends up in a position of trust over a child, boy or girl, and betrays that trust in the worst way imaginable.

    An Interview with Mike Allen marshallpayne1 2009

  • While most God games have you managing statistics in what can feel dishearteningly like a brightly coloured set of Excel spreadsheets, From Dust has an altogether more tactile set of priorities and would rather you spend your time moulding the land to see what happens than brooding over crop yields.

    This week's new games 2011

  • Many Canadians and West Coasters return year after year, settling in for a couple of weeks or half a year, drawn back by a city that is, in turns, gritty and glamorous, calm and frenetic, dishearteningly ugly and quietly beautiful.

    Mazatlan: why snowbirds keep coming back 2009

  • According to something that doesn't quite look like a news source, Nickelodeon has come up with the idea of creating an older version of Dora the Explorer, by which we will learn, dishearteningly, that the popular cartoon character has grown into a miniskirted teenybopper.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The explanation they got was either dishearteningly honest or poorly worded.

    Yes, the President of the Valley Swim Club is a John G Duesler, Jr. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Many Canadians and West Coasters return year after year, settling in for a couple of weeks or half a year, drawn back by a city that is, in turns, gritty and glamorous, calm and frenetic, dishearteningly ugly and quietly beautiful.

    Mazatlan: why snowbirds keep coming back 2009

  • According to something that doesn't quite look like a news source, Nickelodeon has come up with the idea of creating an older version of Dora the Explorer, by which we will learn, dishearteningly, that the popular cartoon character has grown into a miniskirted teenybopper.

    Flotsam and Jetsam 2009

  • The process was slow and painstaking and the waiting list dishearteningly long.

    Free dental care draws thousands to outdoor clinic in rural Virginia Mary Otto 2010

  • Even Kaneria, however, struggled to flog much life out of a dishearteningly flat pitch, for all that there was plenty of grass left on it.

    Danish Kaneria flogs a dead pitch while Hampshire make hay in the sun Richard Rae at the Rose Bowl 2010

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