Kathryn Minshew

I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.

American Businesswoman

Joseph Pulitzer

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.

American Publisher

James Howard Kunstler

The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

American Author

Esme Creed-Miles

The whole thing of sexually objectifying yourself is really demoralizing and degrading as a human being, and it's something that men have never had to do, and it's something that 'Hanna' has never had to do.

English Actress

Paul Auster

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Nikki Glaser

I nannied for a couple of months. The kids were super-funny; it made me wish I grew up in a comedy household. But nannying is demoralizing. I'm just not cut out for it.

American Comedian

JaVale McGee

If you're just dunking by yourself, it's really nothing special. You have to dunk on someone - then you feel like you're demoralizing them.

American Athlete

Oscar Wilde

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Irish Poet

Edmund Wilson

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

American Critic

Katharine Hepburn

American Actress

Use 'demoralizing' when an action slowly makes someone less confident or hopeful.

Confidence Erosion

'Demoralizing' often implies a negative influence that can be felt over time.

Negative Effect

Use 'demoralizing' when describing situations that make someone emotionally drained.

Emotional Impact

'Demoralizing' sometimes refers to moral or ethical deterioration in a particular setting.

Moral Decline

It is used to indicate that something or someone is causing others to act in morally unacceptable ways.

Corruptive Influence

'Demoralizing' describes situations where people feel so discouraged that they want to give up.

Loss of Will

Often used after experiencing a setback that reduces one's motivation or drive.

After Failure

 And you have to think that the stress of not knowing what you're going to do, and where the good paychecks are going to come from, that had to be a contributing factor. I don't think they give one whit about the worker. I don't think they give one whit about the community that the workers are in. I mean, it's just demoralizing.

Job Security in an...

 Economists call this demoralizing situation the welfare trap— one of the many different poverty traps affecting millions of people around the world. Poverty traps are economic and environmental circumstances that reinforce themselves, perpetuating poverty for generations.

Why is it so hard to...

 Now we're talking scale. Now we're talking the potential for real change. But it's never going to happen by forcing these organizations to lower their horizons to the demoralizing objective of keeping their overhead low.