Disheartening

Examples

• The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I felt the truth--the disheartening truth--of those words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yet there is nothing strange or particularly disheartening about this commonplace observation: to expect anything else is to hope that a nation will lift itself by its own bootstraps. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was very hard; very hard; lonely and disheartening. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A third and fourth friend in the vicinity was appealed to with the same disheartening reply of a story of wholesale spoliation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The same dense, disheartening obscurity hangs over the fate and fortunes of Anne Catherick, and her companion, Mrs. Clements. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This friend, I pursued, is trying to get on in commercial life, but has no money, and finds it difficult and disheartening to make a beginning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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