depress

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.

Maybe this would all be too depressing to bear if we didn’t know that the good guys eventually triumph.

Grennan said being the victim of an unprovoked attack and hospitalised with a broken jaw while at university was when he first encountered being depressed.

Then, when it's time for resurrection, Hadj-Moussa explained, "they 're-animate' by reversing what they did to depress their metabolism, shift back to glucose metabolism, all while elevating levels of antioxidants."