Synonyms for disheartening
dis·heart·en·ing

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1. demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiritingadjective

   destructive of morale and self-reliance

   Synonyms:
   demoralizing, dispiriting, demoralising

   Antonyms:
   encouraging

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1. List of paraphrases for "disheartening":

   discouraging, depressing, disappointing, daunting, demotivating, distressing, frustrating

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1. Erin Walters:

   That is so disheartening on so many levels because we’re placing such a high value on being entertained for a moment, it seems selfish for that to be a priority when we have so many other social services suffering right now.

2. Chris Jones:

   After so many of these police brutality situations, you would think that someone would have some empathy and be able to [bring people] together and stop this disheartening violence.

3. Debra Katz:

   Today it was stunning and disheartening to listen to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell insist that Dan Snyder and the Washington Commanders have been held fully accountable for the team’s two-decades-long sexual harassment of female employees, this, of course, is not true… To be clear, our clients want and deserve a full accounting of Beth Wilkinson’s findings.Until he agrees to release such findings, Mr. Goodell’s purported concern for the employees who suffered through 20 years of harassment and abuse is a sham.

4. Scott Young:

   This is not something I thought was a possibility, it’s just sad and disheartening.

5. Janai Nelson:

   My first reaction was disbelief and disappointment, in a case with this much significance, for a Supreme Court justice to make comments that amplify the myth of racial inferiority, is deeply disheartening.