Synonyms for demoralizing
de·mor·al·iz·ing

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1. demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiritingadjective

   destructive of morale and self-reliance

   Synonyms:
   dispiriting, disheartening, demoralising

   Antonyms:
   encouraging

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1. List of paraphrases for "demoralizing":

   demoralising, depressing

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How to use demoralizing in a sentence?

1. Christine Villani:

   I find it demoralizing, and I feel like I live in a war zone, it says to me that nobody cares, anything goes.

2. Harriet Braiker:

   Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

3. Sophocles:

   Money There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

4. Mary Campbell:

   I wish my parents could've been here to hear that, and I wish everyone could hear how it truly feels to live with mental illness, the stigma of mental illness was just so demoralizing at the time when I was diagnosed that I couldn't come out. I couldn't really seek the treatment I needed. It just took a lot of self-advocacy.

5. Isabel Hilton:

   This is all very demoralizing for Taiwanese, and it's kept at a level which is designed not to let Taiwan relax, not to let Taiwan forget the threat.