demoralise

1 It's work that does not depress or demoralise the worker.

2 He added that political interference had resulted in a demoralised and disorganised workforce.

3 Rylance's, however, last up to 30 minutes each, and are designed to be encouraging rather than demoralising.

4 There is a marvellous image at the beginning of White Fever, an account by Polish journalist Jacek Hugo-Bader of his demoralising road trip across Siberia.

5 On top of that, she says, "I had some pretty major writer's block, which is so demoralising. You're feeling all these emotions and you just can't get them out."

6 We've dressed this smart since we were on the dole, which sounds weird, but being on the dole is demoralising.

7 This trailer is so unrelentingly demoralising that I just want to crawl into bed and cry myself inside out for a month.

8 "We showed how it is the petty things, like when the Japanese issued three sanitary towels to the whole camp, that demoralise, not the enormous cruelties."

9 “If the prime minister was hoping to demoralise and divide our profession with his actions, he will be disappointed,” Laurenson and Trivedi said.

10 In a statement, one of the constables said he felt isolated, abandoned, embarrassed and demoralised by the decision to suspend him.

11 And when his "old school" numbers expose him as an accomplished scat rapper, it's demoralising to realise that, career-wise, he's following Plan B to the letter.

12 There is nothing more demoralising for a host than, amid a tortuous negotiation of wheedling promises and pathetic threats, watching a seven-year-old refuse to eat as its parents let their meal go cold.

13 This never took place, but for the rest of his life – he was to die, prematurely, worn out and demoralised in 1940 – Bulgakov expected the phone to ring again.

14 “Acting is hard because you’re being told ‘no’ all the time, which is so demoralising, and then, God forbid you should have any standards about the kind of work you should be doing.

15 For both the schoolchildren who had to endure this, and the teachers who had to instruct them, this was a demoralising and dysfunctional experience.

16 A school which had been prepared to take Ofsted to court said its restored rating of "good" had come after an "exhausting and demoralising" year.

17 It's likely to demoralise the Kremlin's opponents even more.

18 "More cuts means more overworked and demoralised staff walking away and on it goes."

19 "Teachers, classroom assistants, school leaders are demoralised in Northern Ireland. We don't have the support we need, our children are not getting the education they deserve."

20 You’d read all these articles that said: “What are the winners doing now?” and it would feel demoralising.

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