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be dispirited
adjective
Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
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Otherwise, there will be dispirited days piled upon dispirited days.
Yet even optimists have to be dispirited by the revelation of such casually accepted racism.
Watford head into Sunday's FA Cup semi-final with their morale healthily buoyed – even if their opponents, Wolves, will hardly be dispirited after their victory over Manchester United.
Democrats also have reason not to be dispirited by the argument that midterm electorates tend to be older and whiter (along with being more upscale) — and therefore more Republican — than presidential electorates.
A senior Gore adviser also said the party might have to spend more money in Missouri to turn out Democratic voters who might be dispirited by Mr. Carnahan's death.
Whether or not the Court ultimately strikes down the individual mandate that's key to the law, its supporters had to be dispirited as they heard the justices wrestle with the question of severability — that is, whether or not the full law has to go if the mandate does.
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Italian Socialist Party is dispirited.
set, was dispirited.
My men are dispirited.
But in many ways, she was dispirited.
Yet the province's well-wishers are dispirited these days.
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