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- verb Present participle of
demotivate .
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Examples
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Final point garage sales are so very demotivating.
Yes, it's come to this: Liveblogging preparations for my garage sale Tyler 2009
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American leaders excel at demotivating people with pay, traditionally not a top 5 motivator.
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It is also boring and demotivating working on your own for long periods of time.
‘Single Crewed’ In Ruralshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Must be demotivating for the Secret Service to have to actually protect this loser ...
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If government has to avoid demotivating its employees, it or the NHS units 'leaders also have to avoid trying to motivate them (usually with handouts).
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Wally: "I find it rather demotivating that you never praise me for a job well done."
To Motivate Staffers, Are Carrots Better Than Sticks? Alan Murray 2010
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It's demotivating for young people who may ask what the point is of trying hard.
Clearing centres feel the squeeze on A-level results day 2010
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Wally: "I find it rather demotivating that you never praise me for a job well done."
To Motivate Staffers, Are Carrots Better Than Sticks? Alan Murray 2010
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That's because you can't order volunteers to do anything -- you have to motivate them, and Obama's compromises to almost every powers-that-be are tremendously demotivating.
Peter Daou: Ethics and Believability in Politics: On Sifry's Theory of an 'Obama Disconnect' 2010
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These are both organizational solutions, and valid ones, but the bigger problem is still the one Sifry identifies here: "You can't order volunteers to do anything -- you have to motivate them, and Obama's compromises to almost every powers-that-be are tremendously demotivating."
Peter Daou: Ethics and Believability in Politics: On Sifry's Theory of an 'Obama Disconnect' 2010
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