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Definition of Dishearteningly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishearteningly
Literary usage of Dishearteningly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... notes on experiences in the sinking of the thousands of wells that have been
put down on salt domes in the search for oil is dishearteningly scant, ..."
2. Old Picture Books: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books by James Baldwin, Oakland Free Library, Alfred William Pollard (1902)
"No doubt the enormous increase in the output of the press makes its history during
the last two centuries and a half dishearteningly difficult, ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1902)
"... dishearteningly various and capricious. Concerning the processes of abstraction
and conception, certain stereotyped formulas were indeed, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Its development was dishearteningly slow, however. It was a day when all intellectual
processes were as slow as the pace of the overladen battle-horses, ..."
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