A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.
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Discountenance
//dɪsˈkaʊntənəns//
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So far from friendship being an institution whose value is recognised and understood, it is at best scantily acknowledged, and is often actually discountenanced and misunderstood.
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Mr Macgregor stiffened at the word 'nigger', which is discountenanced in India.
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'Mrs' was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party—you were supposed to call everyone 'comrade'—but with some women one used it instinctively.
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