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demoralizingly adverb (UK usuallydemoralisingly)uk /dɪˈmɒr.ə.laɪ.zɪŋ.li/ us /dɪˈmɔːr.ə.laɪ.zɪŋ.li/ in a way that makes you lose confidence, enthusiasm, and hope: The pay and facilities available to staff are demoralizingly poor. We were dragged off to a demoralisingly wet hillside for Army-style training. The winter was not ultra-cold, but it was demoralizingly long. A great deal of money and manpower was thrown at the campaign, and it had demoralisingly little effect. The report claimed that schools have demoralizingly low expectations of poor students. The exercise can be helpful, but it is often demoralizingly difficult. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Saddening, shocking and upsetting affecting agonizingly arrogance baleful be cold comfortidiom distressful distressfully distressing distressingly dolorous hurtful hurtfully impiously impiousness lacerating teary touching touchingly tragically traumatic
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