discountenance

How To Use discountenance In A Sentence

• Some international observers were refused entry and their reports discountenanced by our electoral authorities, yet Nigerians went to Ghana to monitor elections! Professor Emman Osakwe « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
• Sir Hugh was discountenanced from any further inquiry. Camilla
• Toward the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda
• It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste. A Renegade History of the United States
• I was discountenanced, feeling a slow and steady anger rising, a free-floating anger, aimed at no one, no thing as yet.
• It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste. A Renegade History of the United States
• Spiritual insight is blinded by carnal desire; conduct is influenced by unbridled license; bigotry and hatred are fostered by his policy of intoleration; and his followers are enslaved by a tyranny that blights the reason, because it discountenances inquiry, and places an insurmountable barrier in the way of all human progress. Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam
• The republic soon discountenanced its few friends
• any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced
• As Fowler said: “It is an idiom that should be not discountenanced, but used when it comes natural.” 2008 April « Motivated Grammar