discouraging

[ US /dɪˈskɝədʒɪŋ, dɪˈskɝɪdʒɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪskˈʌɹɪd‍ʒɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
    where never is heard a discouraging word
  2. expressing disapproval in order to dissuade

How To Use discouraging In A Sentence

  • Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
  • Now environmentalists are discouraging the use of disposables.
  • However, efforts in the past year to stimulate angiogenesis in patients have been discouraging. The Scientist
  • The levy of 30% on cattle exported on the hoof, on the other hand, is aimed at discouraging the export of live animals from the country.
  • For seamen, special patterns of musket were introduced and the musketoon, or blunderbuss, became a shipboard weapon useful for discouraging both boarders and putative mutineers.
  • Three pairs of US army shades turned on me, and a couple of American guns waggled discouragingly in my direction.
  • Sexual discrimination is seen to be an important factor in discouraging women from careers in engineering.
  • Despite the discouraging times, activists continue to struggle on many fronts.
  • Most of the adjustments pastors have made to lessen the discouraging effect of sluggish attendance figures are internal. Christianity Today
  • Our imagination can be either helpful or discouraging when it begins to anticipate a course of action.
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