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Discouraging
"Discouraging" in a Sentence (13 examples)
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.
It's discouraging that the travel expenses add up to 20,000 yen.
That's discouraging.
This is discouraging.
That was discouraging.
It was pretty discouraging.
The answer was discouraging.
If a government is to be prudent its taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise.
The family received discouraging news from the doctor about Tom's health.
It was so discouraging.
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Near-synonyms: disheartening; see also Thesaurus:disheartening
Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day
August 6, 1841, Lydia Ann Barclay, letter to J. B. But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings, and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles […]
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