Used in a Sentence

demoralising

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for demoralising.

Editorial note

The work is pretty gruelling and pretty demoralising too.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(British spelling) disheartening

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of demoralising gathered in one view.

adjective

(British spelling) disheartening

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for demoralising.

Example sentences

1

The work is pretty gruelling and pretty demoralising too.

2

It's incredibly frustrating and demoralising for the staff, who are usually stuck dealing with legacy, messed up, projects.

3

Giving credit to your people but taking the blame (which is what should be done) it's easy, but demoralising.

4

Their work is about pushing propaganda AND demoralising people so that they give up fighting.

5

It's pretty demoralising to have people picking over your question and closing it for (seemingly bogus) reasons or asking for pointless clarification.

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It gets incredibly demoralising for a hard worker, doing stuff by the book, to see a colleague exploiting and cheating the system.

7

Enormous waste of a lot of time and effort, anti agile and demoralising.

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Having come from a consumer world it's quite demoralising starting off in B2B.

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It's very demoralising for new users seeing the article they care about and spent time on getting deleted by a single click from an administrator.

10

This HN submission is useless and demoralising, bordering on cyber begging.

11

What a demoralising (and grossly incorrect) way to look at work.

12

I thought it was common wisdom was that it was demoralising for most to feel that you they are bad at something.

Quote examples

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It was very demoralising and it knocked me back for a few months as it really made me think "I am not good enough to do this".

2

“The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them,” a military source said.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use demoralising in a sentence?

The work is pretty gruelling and pretty demoralising too.

What does demoralising mean?

(British spelling) disheartening

What part of speech is demoralising?

demoralising is commonly used as adjective.