16 collocations for demoralises

I have seen him demoralise a whole team by the way in which he would take wicket after wicket, within an hour, by the artful way in which he adapted the style of his bowling to the character of the man who fenced him at the wicket.

And I'll tell, in simple language, what I know about the shine Which demoralised our kitchen, and which bust up our Big Dine.

LORENZO DE, the Magnificent, did much to demoralise Florence, but patronised literature and the arts (1448-1492).

The rear of a battle is, even in the time of victory, a place of demoralising influence.

If he succeed in demoralising the line of elephants, roaring and dashing furiously about, he will then try in the confusion to double through, unless he is too badly wounded to be able to travel fast, in which case he will fight to the end.

For the attraction of the place, were it given play, would completely demoralise Meaux and the entire district.

He was separated from his mother, and handed over to the custody of one Simon, a ferocious cobbler, and his wife, who, besides practising all sorts of external cruelties on him, tried every means to demoralise his mind.

No doubt it conferred popularity on Caius, and no doubt his popularity was acceptable to him; but there is no ground for believing that his noble nature deliberately stooped to demoralise the mob for selfish motives.

"Look here: if you don't mind being blasphemous for yourself, don't demoralise the natives.

"His head seems full of literature, and he is so idle that he is demoralising the whole office.

If we had raised their income beyond that of the labouring man in ordinary times, we should have gone far to destroy the most valuable feeling of the manufacturing populationnamely, that of honest self-reliance, and we should have done our best, to a great extent, to demoralise a large portion of the population, and induce them to prefer the wages of charitable relief to the return of honest industry.

Mere charity for instance, while relieving the pinch of hunger, demoralises the recipient.

Manifestly Greek must be dropped as a part of the general curriculum for a highly educated man, for the simple reason that now there are scarcely any competent teachers, and because the sham of teaching it partially and pretentiously demoralises student and school alike.

The Revolution weakened and demoralised the French army and disorganised the navy, which it deprived of almost all its experienced officers.

Hurried and driven men glorify "push" and impatience, and despise finish and fine discriminations as weak and demoralising things.

As Generalissimo of all the Allied Forces the great French Marshal has planned and carried out an ensemble of operations designed to shatter and demoralise the enemy at every point.

16 collocations for  demoralises