The failure left the Cuban army dispirited and demoralized. The exhausted, dispirited, and half-starved British regulars fired a single ragged fusillade before retreating. Farther north, other US forces made faster progress against more disorganized and dispirited enemy troops. But if the "mitzvah" was joyless then the angel too will be dispirited. The exhausted, dispirited French perhaps might have folded. This led to King becoming dispirited, losing interest in his work and retreating into depression. Rusty inadvertently sees Kate and Glen doing cocaine in the bathroom, leaving him dispirited. Some dispirited Boers did likewise, and the British gathered up much war material. He was especially dispirited because his lifelong desire was to be a Yankee. While Dionysus is entertained in the halls of Nereus, the Bacchic army is dispirited. He is rescued by Philips and Anna in the helicopter, beaten and dispirited. He was also, says Shepherd, an inspiration to the dispirited Labour rank and file. Sassui's father was dispirited, hoping that Sassi would marry a washerman and no one else. Gore was "dispirited" after his return from Vietnam. They return, dispirited, to the penthouse.