The word 'dishearten' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that makes someone feel disheartened or discouraged. Example sentence: The comments from the critics disheartened the young director.
Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, argued that trying to build up Europe as a counterweight to the United States was a profoundly misguided and dangerous idea.The very fact that the EU was divided over Iraq might have been expected to dishearten the Euro-nationalists, and initially it did.
"The attack was to dishearten, to demoralise the civilian security services," said a local administrator.
Failure to denounce this weekend's sham election would serve only to discredit the West and dishearten those brave Russians who still hope for a democratic future.
WHEN an army wants to dishearten a defeated foe, few things are more effective than desecrating his holiest shrines.
The easy slope allowed William's knights an open approach, against which Harold relied on the close "shield wall" formation of his trained troops to hurl back and dishearten the enemy.
And Dawn Approach's trainer Jim Bolger did little yesterday to dishearten the colt's supporters.
"Undemocratic actions, such as abductions, intimidation and torture by the state against activists, are disheartening when the lives of the Zimbabweans are becoming even more difficult due to the government's failure to arrest the worsening socio-economic challenges in the country," the group said.
This is disheartening: Even with just 10 total patients treated for Ebola in this country and no transmission from a medical aid worker to another person on US soil, politicians are still escalating anxieties and giving the public permission to discriminate, stigmatize and even hate aid workers like me.
The way a portion of their supporters reacted to the news was as disheartening as it was predictable: they went online and gloated.
"It's disheartening when it comes to auditions to see these UK students with potential and enthusiasm consistently outclassed by fitter, stronger and more versatile counterparts from Europe, Asia and the US," Shechter has said.
Obviously, workers get disheartened and reduce their demand for work even when they need it; in other cases, the state and local authorities try to dissuade them or do not register their demand because they do not have the funds to provide the required work.
