1 Our lack of progress is very dispiriting.

2 It was a bit dispiriting to see so few people arriving for the meeting.

3 It's very dispiriting for anyone to be out of a job.

4 The survey holds even more dispiriting news for unionism.

5 The dispiriting memories of the seventies were fading. Mass unemployment had lost its old political potency.

6 To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.

7 Dispiriting experiences like this will quickly damage the reputation of UK higher education abroad.

8 That is a crude characterisation of Lithuania’s dispiriting politics ever since the country regained its independence in 1991.

9 A while ago I had a dispiriting conversation with another eminent European scientist.

10 The dispiriting task of assessing damage at the Harlow research institute took several days.

11 Sometimes, by contrast, in not providing the answers, you produce the same dispiriting result.

12 Although there were fleeting moments of engaging interplay between the lower strings, the performance was strangely dispiriting.

13 The results of China's first national pollution survey make for dispiriting reading.

14 She stopt to blush and laugh at her own relapse, and then resumed a more serious, more dispiriting cogitation upon what had been, and might be, and must be.