dispiriting

The situation in Iraq is a dispiriting one, to say the least.

Suddenly, what had been a dispiriting day was a whole lot better.

The year 2010, for example, stands out as looking particularly dispiriting.

It would be wrong to take this dispiriting show at more than face value.

"For them to pull up and leave is very dispiriting, to say the least, at the time when we need it most."

The dispiriting loss came just as things seemed to be starting to come together.

To be involved in the world is a muddy, sometimes dispiriting business.

Camp 1, the guys called it, which was a bit dispiriting.

The experience of the past month provides some dispiriting answers.

It followed a dispiriting 10 days for the political opposition here.

On the other hand, 1952 seemed a century away, and the prospect of four more years in the House was dispiriting.

We found that once they feel the lack of respect, it's dispiriting.

No, it was far too dispiriting to be in the least amusing.

They had fallen to 2-3 under the most dispiriting circumstances.

"The isolation in the world of writing is often dispiriting," he said.

In either case, the result is a constant, dispiriting turnover.

But if you pull back to take in the forest along with the trees, things quickly become pretty dispiriting.

We have all seen the dispiriting images on our television screens.

First comes the dispiriting realization that he's not telling the truth.

The presence of the Colonel walking at her side was dispiriting.

And they are the featured players in two dispiriting new novels.

The game was in the third quarter and the Colts were coming back after a dispiriting first half.

The time spent on the phone had been dispiriting.

It makes for a spirited if slightly dispiriting two hours.

It was glorious and at the same time sadly dispiriting.