Demoralizing
adjective
Causing someone to lose confidence or hope.
The constant criticism was very demoralizing
adjective
Causing downfall or corruption, especially in morality.
The demoralizing influence of the environment
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Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Causing or likely to cause a person to give up.
The team has suffered a demoralizing loss
adjective
Causing someone to lose confidence or hope.
The constant criticism was very demoralizing
adjective
Causing downfall or corruption, especially in morality.
The demoralizing influence of the environment
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Causing or likely to cause a person to give up.
The team has suffered a demoralizing loss
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Confidence Erosion
Use 'demoralizing' when an action slowly makes someone less confident or hopeful.
Repeated failures in the tests were demoralizing for her.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Effect
'Demoralizing' often implies a negative influence that can be felt over time.
The endless rain on the hike felt demoralizing.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Use 'demoralizing' when describing situations that make someone emotionally drained.
Seeing no one at his concert was demoralizing.
Pro Tip 1/3Confidence Erosion
Use 'demoralizing' when an action slowly makes someone less confident or hopeful.
Repeated failures in the tests were demoralizing for her.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Effect
'Demoralizing' often implies a negative influence that can be felt over time.
The endless rain on the hike felt demoralizing.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Use 'demoralizing' when describing situations that make someone emotionally drained.
Seeing no one at his concert was demoralizing.
Pro Tip 1/3Confidence Erosion
Use 'demoralizing' when an action slowly makes someone less confident or hopeful.
Repeated failures in the tests were demoralizing for her.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Effect
'Demoralizing' often implies a negative influence that can be felt over time.
The endless rain on the hike felt demoralizing.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Use 'demoralizing' when describing situations that make someone emotionally drained.
Seeing no one at his concert was demoralizing.
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Job Security in an...
And you have to think that the stress of not knowing what you're going to do, and where the good paychecks are going to come from, that had to be a contributing factor. I don't think they give one whit about the worker. I don't think they give one whit about the community that the workers are in. I mean, it's just demoralizing.
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Why is it so hard to...
Economists call this demoralizing situation the welfare trap— one of the many different poverty traps affecting millions of people around the world. Poverty traps are economic and environmental circumstances that reinforce themselves, perpetuating poverty for generations.
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The way we think about...
Now we're talking scale. Now we're talking the potential for real change. But it's never going to happen by forcing these organizations to lower their horizons to the demoralizing objective of keeping their overhead low.
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Job Security in an...
And you have to think that the stress of not knowing what you're going to do, and where the good paychecks are going to come from, that had to be a contributing factor. I don't think they give one whit about the worker. I don't think they give one whit about the community that the workers are in. I mean, it's just demoralizing.
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Why is it so hard to...
Economists call this demoralizing situation the welfare trap— one of the many different poverty traps affecting millions of people around the world. Poverty traps are economic and environmental circumstances that reinforce themselves, perpetuating poverty for generations.
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The way we think about...
Now we're talking scale. Now we're talking the potential for real change. But it's never going to happen by forcing these organizations to lower their horizons to the demoralizing objective of keeping their overhead low.
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Kathryn Minshew
American Businesswoman
I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.
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Joseph Pulitzer
American Publisher
We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.
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James Howard Kunstler
American Author
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
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Esme Creed-Miles
English Actress
The whole thing of sexually objectifying yourself is really demoralizing and degrading as a human being, and it's something that men have never had to do, and it's something that 'Hanna' has never had to do.
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Paul Auster
American Author
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
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Nikki Glaser
American Comedian
I nannied for a couple of months. The kids were super-funny; it made me wish I grew up in a comedy household. But nannying is demoralizing. I'm just not cut out for it.
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JaVale McGee
American Athlete
If you're just dunking by yourself, it's really nothing special. You have to dunk on someone - then you feel like you're demoralizing them.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Edmund Wilson
American Critic
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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Katharine Hepburn
American Actress
To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Kathryn Minshew
American Businesswoman
I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.
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Joseph Pulitzer
American Publisher
We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.
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James Howard Kunstler
American Author
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
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Esme Creed-Miles
English Actress
The whole thing of sexually objectifying yourself is really demoralizing and degrading as a human being, and it's something that men have never had to do, and it's something that 'Hanna' has never had to do.
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Paul Auster
American Author
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
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Nikki Glaser
American Comedian
I nannied for a couple of months. The kids were super-funny; it made me wish I grew up in a comedy household. But nannying is demoralizing. I'm just not cut out for it.
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JaVale McGee
American Athlete
If you're just dunking by yourself, it's really nothing special. You have to dunk on someone - then you feel like you're demoralizing them.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Edmund Wilson
American Critic
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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Katharine Hepburn
American Actress
To be loved is very demoralizing.
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