dispiriting

It is amazing (and somewhat dispiriting) when you meet one, however working with one is, in my experience, only inspiring.

Looking at a list like that might be dispiriting because the items all appear to be frustratingly correlated with random chance.

As such, living on the bread line can be a deeply depressing and dispiriting experience.

But it's a bit dispiriting to see the same problems in the new tech from the last time the dharma wheel rolled around.

Apart from its obvious flaws is the ironic fact that in the end, it's a lousy, dispiriting example to set for one's kids.

Which is wasted work, wasted time and totally dispiriting for a developer.

What was really dispiriting was when someone understood it, and were shocked we'd asked it.

Even more dispiriting is the relationship between scrolling and sharing.

I just think that's terrible, that's a terrible and dispiriting culture that permits and even encourages that kind of callous I'm-just-in-it-for-myself thinking.

The person editing did the change by scanning the (rather large) document and manually changing each occurrence, a task which took a couple of rather dispiriting hours.

Not surprising, but certainly dispiriting.

I can't stress enough how dispiriting this is.

It's a bit dispiriting to read "get-off-my-lawn"-style answers, especially about something genuinely interesting and which isn't filling half the frontpage at any given time.

In this case he has no temporal data, only a dispiriting survey of the present, so his claim to "know" that the (unproven) increased absorption in publication is the cause of an (unproven, even undescribed) prof-student alienation is basically a lie.