Paul Farbrace slammed his Sussex side as “not good enough” after another bad night in the Vitality Blast.
Sharks’ batting again fell away as they were bowled out for by Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
They were bowled out in just 16.3 overs for 122 chasing the hosts’ 198-3.
Sussex have only Middlesex below them in the South Group and are way off the pace with just two wins, one of them on opening night.
They have lost six out of seven since then.
The latest defeat capped a bad day which saw them confirm they would lose the services of Henry Crocombe to Surrey at the end of the season.
Head coach Farbrace said: “We had a few games in the first half of the comp when we played really well and not quite clinical enough to win them, but tonight was just not acceptable.
“I defend the lads a lot and I talk about them being honest. The one thing I asked tonight was that we showed guts, determination and a bit of fight and passion about us, but we didn’t have that.
“We were poor in the field, we missed chances, we didn’t bowl particularly well generally.
“I thought our two spinners (Danny Briggs and Jack Carson) were outstanding.
“I thought Sean Hunt bowled well but our fielding was very average. Our batting, we got off to a decent start, but it was a familiar story.
“Once we lost the second wicket, we just seemed to collapse.
“We have talked about it, practised it. At the minute we seem to lose a wicket and then have two new batters at the crease but tonight wasn’t a skill thing - it was a lack of determination, a lack of guts, lack of application and no-one taking responsibility.
“It’s poor, but it sums up where we’ve been in T20.”
Briggs took 2-36 and Carson 1-29, both from four overs, while Hunt’s full allocation went for 34 runs.
Tymal Mills conceded 54 runs in his four overs.
Dan Hughes hit 38 off 31 balls and Harrison Ward 23 from 15 at the top of the Sussex reply.
But their last nine wickets tumbled for 58.
Rob Yates (54 from 27 balls), Beau Webster (60 from 42 balls) and Sam Hain (68 not out from 38 balls) all passed 50 as the Bears posted an imposing total.
Sharks were steady if unspectacular in the opening stages of their chase but they were just beginning to pick up the pace when Ward chopped on when facing down Richard Gleeson (4-19).
George Thomas (15 from seven balls) made an instant impression at the crease. He took Webster for 14 runs in the final over of the powerplay to bump Sussex back up towards the required run rate.
In the very next over, though, Usman Tariq struck when he trapped Thomas in front to ensure the young batter’s stay was short-lived - and that proved to be a similar story for Oli Carter (12 from nine balls), whose leg stump was ripped from the ground when he failed in sweeping Webster.
When Hughes perished, victim of a jaffa from Jordan Thompson which sent his bails flying, things began to look rather ominous for Sussex’s lower order.
The pressure on the tail to produce runs led to ill-timed and ill-advised shot selection, which Gleeson took full advantage of and his searing pace and full-length deliveries proved far too good for Carson, Briggs and Hunt as the Bears coasted to the points with more than three overs to spare.
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