Synonyms for demoralizing
de·mor·al·iz·ing

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1. demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiritingadjective

   destructive of morale and self-reliance

   Synonyms:
   dispiriting, disheartening, demoralising

   Antonyms:
   encouraging

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1. List of paraphrases for "demoralizing":

   demoralising, depressing

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1. Edmund Wilson:

   There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

2. Harriet Braiker:

   Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

3. Oscar Wilde:

   The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

4. Selina Soule:

   We all know the outcome of the race before it even starts; its demoralizing, i fully support and am happy for these athletes for being true to themselves. They should have the right to express themselves in school, but athletics have always had extra rules to keep the competition fair.

5. Jennifer Lincoln:

   It's demoralizing to go through the amount of years of training that we go through, to know and to see the outcomes that happened with people when they didn't have a choice, when they had situations that they couldn't take control of, and to see that patients now who are just being told that they are not able to be in control of their life and their reproductive choices, we've already been down, because of Covid and seeing our patients be left behind, out of the vaccine trials, and now this, it's just -- it's just hard when Jennifer Lincoln never thought this would have to be an issue. And we've got plenty of other stuff to focus on, right ?