To say that these last years have been dispiriting is an understatement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

It is kind of dispiriting to realize how batshit a lot of the Obombers really are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"] Reference

No Greg, YOU stop with the "dispiriting" nonsense and the fraudulent numbers that Clinton is pushing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest Popular Vote Counts] Reference

The programme outlined by the government was "dispiriting", he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content] Reference

Lord Laming said after the Baby P trial it was "dispiriting" that the same local authority was involved again.    From Wordnik.com.  [icCoventry] Reference

And my children's friends have suggested they find reading "serious news" "dispiriting" because it makes them feel helpless.    From Wordnik.com.  [t r u t h o u t] Reference

Lord Laming, who called for a series of reforms in the wake of Victoria Climbié's death, said the similarities were "dispiriting".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Lord Laming said that it was "dispiriting" that nine years on from his landmark public inquiry, such tragedies were still taking place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mirror.co.uk - News] Reference

It is dispiriting to read of El Diario's editorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Montemayor: Media Must Remember Its Duty in the Face of a Threat] Reference

Here are some dispiriting signs: Spending nose dives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight Of The Pc Era?] Reference

A talk with my publisher's lawyer was even more dispiriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day I Got Napsterized] Reference

For true believers in that vision, 2005 was a dispiriting year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Will Get It Right] Reference

For any but the pinstriped devout, its a dispiriting enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: The Fat Cats Of Summer] Reference

Even with the right mindset, it's still dispiriting and stressful.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of Bickering] Reference

Its final act is likely to be as messy and dispiriting as the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amnesty International: Time Running Out for Omar Khadr] Reference

Its final act is likely to be as messy and dispiriting as the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amnesty International: Time Running Out for Omar Khadr] Reference

Or is it simply the dispiriting mediocrity pervading the performance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CD review: Decca's 'Carmen,' featuring Andrea Bocelli] Reference

This has become an even (but really quite poor and dispiriting) game now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bolton Wanderers v Birmingham City - as it happened] Reference

So how to explain the listless, dispiriting Brazilian effort in qualifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clash Of The Titans] Reference

So, here are the worst of the worst, the most dispiriting, and the meanest.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Meanest Book Reviews Ever: Franzen, Foer, Larsson And More (PHOTOS)] Reference

Facing the dispiriting prospect of a reduced budget, Keen responds passionately.    From Wordnik.com.  [London 2012 Olympics: Peter Keen ruthless in pursuit of British medals] Reference

It was dispiriting, because if he couldn't keep it together, who among us could?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15] Reference

But it effectively conjures up the dispiriting emptiness of Orwell's awful vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Notes] Reference

After his dispiriting post-Melbourne blues, he seems to have made a full recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy Murray primed for US Open charge after beating Dustin Brown] Reference

We still remain prey to the economy's euphoric expansions and dispiriting declines.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Our American Dream Unraveled] Reference

Government's role: There are, as always, no easy answers to these dispiriting trends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price Of Neglect] Reference

King found the public opposition and disdain toward his new agenda deeply dispiriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unfinished Dream] Reference

Still, there is something dispiriting about this exit, and none of it is Johnson's fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Glancing Goodbye] Reference

It might be a dispiriting choice between two flawed sons of privilege, but it's a real one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Stakes In November] Reference

Some Mexican-Americans have made spectacular gains, but the overall picture is dispiriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE HARD TRUTH OF IMMIGRATION] Reference

The exception to Iraq's dispiriting economic track record is the northern region of Kurdistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse?] Reference

For me, mainstream movie-going has become an incredibly dispiriting and depressing experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Compass of a Film Fest] Reference

It was an unedifying and dispiriting spectacle, given her regal progress over the past two weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Clijsters and Roger Federer leave US Open crowd in smiles] Reference

Most dispiriting of all for Sarajevans, Europe and America seem to have written off their struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossing An Invisible Line] Reference

A rather dispiriting election day, except for Jim Graham, who seemed to be having a grand old time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The news of this primary day: low turnout] Reference

The news could not have been more dispiriting: The reports of gunfire at medical-relief helicopters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost City] Reference

The man who was expected to be ponderous and dispiriting has been fleet of foot and sometimes dazzling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smashing First Act] Reference

And on yet another level it is a crippling, dispiriting mind-set that convinces me I am worthless and helpless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healing Myself With The Power Of Work] Reference