“I found it dispiritingly easy to knock together a vastly superior top ten in a couple of minutes.”

“And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed.”

“It is not a matter of sport wishing its life away, when every match is dispiritingly seen as a preparation for some other match.”

“There are one or two other people slouching around the departure area dispiritedly.”

“There was a cheery ring to Zenie's voice that had been wont to drag so dispiritedly.”

“She said dispiritedly that it was 54, remembering vaguely that it was somewhere in the fifties.”