Demoralise in a sentence as a verb

Getting questions on this test wrong would probably demoralise a lot of great candidates.

Not to discourage or demoralise you, but keep a close check on your cardiovascular system.

I'd suggest it doesn't benefit the individual - in fact I'd suggest it's designed to harm and demoralise.

Comments like that are damaging and self-reinforcing because they demoralise.

"Your claims of a metabolism slowing down "to a crawl" if a person is hungry isn't helpful in the slightest; comments like this demoralise people.

"If you spend all your time fighting politics and trying to shore up demoralised engineers, you are not going to waste your time dreaming about ponies and rainbows.

Perhaps girls focus more on grades than boys in school for whatever reason, and the grading system is just set up to demoralise people in general.

The first point could result in back-stabbing politics; the 2nd point in removing extremely valuable employees which might demoralise teams.

What im about to say is going to sound really odd and a little hocus pocus -- but i assure you -- it's meant as a re-assurance and not to demoralise you in any way.

And a toxic wreck can't be productive by definition; if you demoralise everyone around you reduce productivity!

This was a calculated attack to demoralise half of Australia's population, with no intent of stopping domestic violence.

Constantly demoralise people for decades, do nothing to properly integrate minorities nor construct a cohesive unified nation: get demoralised people.

On one assignment my lecturer went looking for things to mark me down on that were outside the scope of the assignment because "it would look suspicious if you got a perfect grade".Some people are just capable of more than is expected of that class for whatever reason, not because they intend to demoralise everyone else and break the system.

[0] While making sure that the less-experienced get tasks that stretch them but will not demoralise them, which is itself a tricky thing; I have to keep tabs on those, balancing their educational struggle with it against the need for it to be done and the need to keep them happy and motivated - if an insecure junior software dev has three or four car-crashes in a row, you can lose them forever.

Demoralise definitions

verb

corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

verb

lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

See also: depress deject dismay dispirit demoralize