depressing

"It was a shocker," Allen says, now able to laugh at what was a "depressing" moment at the time.

"The feeling of having to stop this vital help to people would be so stressful and depressing to me and my staff."

It's depressing because I'm old enough to remember when in the '70s the feminist movement felt like, "OK, we're off and running."

I'd say the important question is "How is this any different from the rest of the management science literature, which is pretty depressing stuff?"

It’s dinky and depressing and it doesn’t do a thing to make the world a better place.