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- adverb In a
dispiriting manner.
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Examples
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The £32m renovation and extension work that was at its midpoint last August and gave Edgbaston a dispiritingly imperfect aspect for something so familiar – like a friend with a beard but no moustache – has now been finished and the new pavilion welcomes its first international teams.
Edgbaston usually makes the right noises where England are concerned | Rob Bagchi 2011
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* Steve Benen reminds us that the zombie falsehood about health reform sending you to jail has been refusing to die for a dispiritingly long time.
Happy Hour Roundup Greg Sargent 2010
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It's even worse when it takes a mediocre movie and remakes it into something dispiritingly witless like Arthur.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Arthur Marshall Fine 2011
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As was the case with Bryan Robson's shoulder, which popped its way dispiritingly through the late-1980s, sound-tracking the decade as clearly as any plunking Roland synthesiser, the temptation is now there to become wrapped up with Carroll's lager tally, to assume a condition of relentless ambient anxiety over the state of his ongoing lager thirst.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay 2011
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As for former foreign minister Seiji Maehara, he's calling for a $125 billion "Marshall plan" for post-quake reconstruction that's dispiritingly similar to the Keynesian stimulus that successive Japanese governments have enacted to little effect.
A New Plan for Japan 2011
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But more quantifiable was his inability to command the obedience and loyalty of his players while imposing his dispiritingly old-fashioned hoof and hope tactics on a decent set of players he was forever deriding as inadequate.
What defines the great managers? Total control | Paul Hayward 2011
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Phelim O'NeillFor a show sold as a stylish, cerebral antidote to the morass of CSI-style procedurals, The Killing seems dispiritingly formulaic, with the same dubious coincidences and red herrings popping up each week.
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The gulf between the image in your head and the reflection in the mirror can be dispiritingly wide.
How to dress: Coats and belts Jess Cartner-Morley 2010
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Cherkaoui's regular choreographic partner Damien Jalet is on board for Babel, but so are an assistant choreographer and, dispiritingly, a dramaturg.
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The Heritage Foundation's 2010 Index of Economic Freedom lists the U.S. as the world's eighth freest economy Hong Kong is No. 1, a ranking that the foundation finds dispiritingly low.
The U.S.: No. 1 In Startups, No. 6 In Headgear Exports Mark Rice 2010
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