Definition of "dispiriting" [dispiriting]

• Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening. (adjective)
• Present participle of dispirit. (verb)

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• "To say that these last years have been dispiriting is an understatement."
• "The 71-year-old justice labeled as "dispiriting" the decision to refuse entry through the front steps, although visitors may still leave the building that way."
• "Breyer, lamenting the court's "dispiriting" decision, said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance."