Antonym: encouraging. Similar words: discourage, discouraged, encouraging, discouragement, encouragingly, disparaging, raging, foraging. Meaning: [dɪ'skʌrɪdʒɪŋ] adj. 1. depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action 2. expressing disapproval.
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31. Four minutes past two ... I open the lid and reveal a discouraging mass of loose papers.
32. The real estate market in the fire zone is slow, and the ultimate sales prices are discouraging.
33. It also includes discouraging cultural traits that have outlived their usefulness and may be otherwise harmful to society.
34. In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life.
35. After a gloomy summer of discouraging news, we all needed a boost.
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36. Apart from discouraging investment abroad this also effectively reduced companies' access to international capital markets.
37. The ground mist clung closely to the hedgerows, discouraging the birds and damping down all sound.
38. Unlike Fleming, Florey found the atmosphere of a London teaching hospital uncongenial and the conflicts between clinicians and research workers discouraging.
39. Despite discouraging viewing figures for their movie "For the Boys", Paramount decided to try to make another similar film.
40. The aim of this is to avoid discouraging new investment, although the 10% share still represents an open-ended liability.
41. But the harm caused by a political culture that makes huge material demands while discouraging economic initiative is incalculable.
42. Wittgenstein did nothing to soften the difficulties, even discouraging his own students from attending Waismann's lectures.
43. He had written it under the supervision of James Blackadder, which had been a discouraging experience.
44. Crime is seen as only identifiable by the discouraging response it evokes.
45. However, it will not necessarily change what happens in the classroom, which girls can find so discouraging.
46. And leaders of both parties have been discouraging their rank-and-file from mounting other efforts to challenge the committee recommendation.
47. Watching others leave, even those much improved, could have been discouraging in another way.
48. Clinton also faced the challenge of discouraging future actions by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue, whose planes were attacked.
49. It was a film in a series called Vanishing Peoples, which was discouraging.
50. Behavior is a discouraging field because we are in such close contact with it.
51. It already is discouraging participation in vital genetic research that could lead to effective new preventive medical strategies and cures.
52. He says he will cut interest rates on short-term investments to below inflation, thereby discouraging speculation.
53. It was awfully discouraging, Aleck!
54. It's very discouraging to be sneered at all time.
55. The official statistics are mildly discouraging.
56. Professor Benton said a low GL breakfast helped curb obesity by discouraging snacking.
57. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging.
58. One is by discouraging foreign direct investment ( FDI ).
59. One of the best features of America's system is "experience rating": employers that frequently lay workers off must pay higher payroll taxes, thereby discouraging such lay-offs.
60. After all, it be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade.
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