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  • verb Present participle of disspirit. Alternative spelling of dispiriting.
  • adjective disheartening

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Examples

  • But now it's been cranked up to 11, and is all the more disspiriting for it.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Along these same lines, among the many disspiriting aspects of the recent Democratic debate is the readiness of many of these idiot candidates to throw themselves in with the new anti-Russia propaganda campaign, and repeat the distortions, exaggerations and disinformation that are part of that campaign.

    Matthew Yglesias » The McCain League 2007

  • But now it's been cranked up to 11, and is all the more disspiriting for it.

    Now, this is getting silly 2009

  • But even if the situation's completely innocent, it's still rather disspiriting.

    Here's to a transparent 2009 2009

  • But I think if enough of these big-name troglodytes step up to declare their opposition to McCain, it could cumulatively have a disspiriting effect on conservative voters.

    Dobson Refuses To Cave For McCain, Endorsing Huckabee Instead 2009

  • I mean, this kind of recklessness is very, very disspiriting to people who supported him.

    CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008 2008

  • DOBBS: Perhaps disspiriting that you would see a vote of that magnitude against your resolution.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2005 2005

  • Isabella had one morning withdrawn to her usual place of resort, with the disspiriting conviction that in all probability she should enter it no more.

    Isabella. A Novel 1823

  • That's the jay9059, it's a shame you've had such a negative and disspiriting experience over years of trying to

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

  • That's the jay9059, it's a shame you've had such a negative and disspiriting experience over years of trying to

    PegasusNews.com stories 2010

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