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. Naomi Seligman:

   Today’s vote, on International Women’s Day no less, shows a real disconnect between the rhetoric we hear from elected leaders who claim to support victims of workplace sexual harassment and the pass they give to party loyalists in the next breath. It’s disheartening to say the least.

2. 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.

3. Neil Gorsuch:

   When anyone criticizes the honesty, integrity, the motives of a federal judge, I find that disheartening, I find that demoralizing, because I know the truth.

4. Marisa Flynn:

   This is not the retirement I envisioned. It is disheartening. The government always talks about helping families with children. Middle class elders feel forgotten and invisible.

5. Sarah Saldana:

   I can’t tell you how disheartening it is to hear a very important issue being bandied about as a political football, i would ask we focus on solutions rather than political banter.