Adjective:

demoralizing,

demoralising's Usage Examples:

duck-hunting, prize-fighting, bull-baiting, and others of an equally demoralising character", and "seems to have been much infected by sneaking footpads.

Van der Graaf Generator's decision to split, following an exhausting, demoralising and poverty-stricken experience of being a touring rock band.

time with Servetto Footon, which she described as "frustrating" and "demoralising" due to a lack of support from the team, stating that she had not been.

He was convicted of inciting military personnel disobedience and demoralising the army based on a message he posted on Facebook urging the Royal Cambodian.

Islands Broadcasting Corporation described his appointment as "another demoralising blow to trained career diplomats", as it suggested a tendency to appoint.

People's Republic of Poland the term comic (komiks) was discouraged as a "demoralising Western influence," and the terms "graphic stories" (historyjki obrazkowe).

He was arrested on charges of demoralising the army, and spent ten months in prison.

them as being consciously aware of the objectification by men and the demoralising effects of the male gaze.

Requiring Aborigines to arrest and even shoot down their own people proved demoralising for both sides.

Church, including Archbishop Logue, condemn the GAA for its violence and demoralising influences as well as charging the association as a recruiting ground.

However, the power and influence of the heretics was so demoralising to the faithful that some Cistercian monks from Villemagne near Agde.

It was acknowledged that this change was made due to the demoralising nature of the Storm punishment and having to witness a team running out.

Charlton also suffered demoralising defeats in the first rounds in both domestic cups.

U-19-European Championships on home soil started badly for the home team with a demoralising 1-0 Group A reverse against Austria.

This defeat was so demoralising that the club came very close to folding, but it was the words of "Čika.

the opposition the ball in the first fifteen minutes and setting about demoralising them with brutal defence.

Three days after their demoralising defeat, St Mirren defeated Celtic 4–0 in a Scottish Premier League fixture.

this low level was not deemed educationally useful and may have been demoralising to the recipient.

Subsequent to the demoralising election result, the Values Party faced internal conflict between the.

In 1899, The Times also printed a letter inveighing against "vicious demoralising picture shows in the penny-in-the-slot machines.

Synonyms:

dispiriting; disheartening; discouraging; demoralizing;

Antonyms:

heartening; helpful; persuasive; hopeful; encouraging;