Bobby Sands

I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.

Irish Activist

George Will

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

Journalist

Eric Alterman

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

American Writer

Patrick Lencioni

Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

Frances Hesselbein

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

American Businessman

Jill Abramson

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

American Editor

Shriya Saran

Enemies are dispirited when they see you happy. They know their purpose can be thwarted.

Indian Actress

Describes a deep feeling of being discouraged or having low spirits.

Emotional Depth

Often indicates a temporary feeling that might change with new circumstances.

Temporary State

Avoid using 'dispirited' to describe clinical depression, it’s for non-clinical sadness.

Not Clinical

 From then on, Echo could no longer enrapture listeners with her stories; she could only repeat the last words another said. As her conversations became dull and her company undesirable, Echo grew dispirited. One day, while Echo was drifting through the woods,