demoralizing

Yes, it's wasteful, and yes, it's demoralizing as hell when you're the ordinary employee whose product just got canceled.

It was brutal and demoralizing - doubly so when a candidate everyone liked is rejected for seemingly arbitrary/bureaucratic reasons.

If you go through life tinkering with projects, ideas and products without never really finishing something it gets demoralizing.

Nothing is more demoralizing to an invading force than snipers, except perhaps anti-personnel mines.

Haters are very demoralizing/depressing personally but more dangerously they say things that people start believing as the truth (and it usually isn't).

By making the Germans seem ridiculous to the British, rather than demoralizing the British.

This happens over and over and it's tiring, costs your company money, makes you look bad to your clients and is very demoralizing.

There's really nothing I've done in my career more demoralizing than talking to bizdev people.

Something to consider for an office culture is that a usually-empty office can be demoralizing when people are used to being infected with their coworkers' enthusiasm.

It's deeply demoralizing and we have had lots of that in upper management lately.

It was completely demoralizing for someone young and curious.

Not wasting two months in a demoralizing process?

Sounds like the kind of "10x engineer" who gets there by demoralizing the rest of his team to 0.1x productivity by being an asshole.

Coaches should go for it on 4th-and-short more often than they do, but getting stopped on 4th down is demoralizing" If it is demoralizing enough, and the game (or the season, if being demoralized has a long enough half-life) still has plenty of time to go, that may mean the coaches are acting rational by not playing the short-term better option.

Demoralizing that 3 judges ignore obvious Constitutional rights, yes, but at least hopeful that twice that many disagree with them, and may apply the same reasoning to other equally obvious Constitutional rights.