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discouraging

Speech parts

1. discouraging - Noun

2. discouraging - Adjective

3. discouraging - Verb

5. discouraging - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Discourage

Causing or indicating discouragement.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noël Coward

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Richard Dawkins

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. E. B. White

Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. Maurice Maeterlinck

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. Adam Schiff

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