1. Discouraging Personal Feelings

2. The results were discouraging.

3. Postponed expectations can prove discouraging too.

4. It's discouraging that so many students have failed.

5. He's practised in removing and discouraging demons.

6. Life may get hard, confusing, painful, and discouraging.

7. Her criticisms had the effect of discouraging him completely.

8. Even though that was discouraging, it didn't stop me.

9. The dim arctic twilight added to the discouraging atmosphere.

10. One is by discouraging foreign direct investment ( FDI ).

11. My father's discouraging words still ring in my ears.

12. Today's report is rather more discouraging for the economy.

13. A sharp, cutting tongue and constant complaining can be most discouraging.

14. Anticompetitive definition: (in business) discouraging competition Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

15. The cost would be passed on to speculators, discouraging one-way bets.

16. Antonyms for Blandishing include disparaging, unflattering, discouraging, dissuading, repelling, repulsing and turning off

17. By that comment Jesus was not discouraging his Jewish listeners from studying the Scriptures.

18. That was pretty discouraging and disheartening to see that happening, and it happened repeatedly.

19. All aggressively promoted investment and exports while discouraging (or remaining agnostic about) imports.

20. A wet blanket someone who has a depressing or discouraging effect on others

21. Still, it was discouraging that no one had ventured even a wild guess.

22. The Register plays an important confidence-building role by discouraging excessive and destabilizing accumulation of arms.

23. Nevertheless, it still enjoys close government ties that hinder any real strides in discouraging smoking.

24. Antonyms for Comforting include demoralising, demoralizing, depressing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, alarming, dismaying, disquieting and disturbing

25. Discouraging words for those who believe that a college's job is to educate, not coddle.

26. Life is something worth fighting for, no matter how desperate or discouraging our present circumstances.

27. The ground mist clung closely to the hedgerows, discouraging the birds and damping down all sound.

28. Antonyms for Assuaging include demoralising, demoralizing, depressing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, alarming, dismaying, disquieting and disturbing

29. My slight personal acquaintance with the subject of all this discouraging impersonal solemnity seemed slightly ridiculous.

30. Sexual discrimination is seen to be an important factor in discouraging women from careers in engineering.

31. Antonyms for Consolatory include demoralising, demoralizing, depressing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, alarming, dismaying, disquieting and disturbing

32. • Non-acceleration clauses help restructuring discussions by discouraging individual bondholder action to accelerate the terms of repayment.

33. So these woeful and discouraging conditions are actually evidence that a wonderful change will soon take place.

34. The real estate market in the fire zone is slow, and the ultimate sales prices are discouraging.

35. Overall, canine Cutaneous lymphoma is a difficult and discouraging disease for both dogs and their owners.

36. Holds governments responsible for permitting any support for terrorism within their borders , thereby discouraging this activity .

37. The Register plays an important confidence-building role by discouraging excessive and destabilizing accumulation of arms

38. It's very discouraging to find out that your own team members have been lying to you.

39. Chilling effect definition, a discouraging or deterring effect, especially one resulting from a restrictive law or regulation

40. The statements were incorrectly perceived as discouraging the participation of the United States in World War I.

41. 23 Spraying with water is particularly effective for discouraging red spider mite , which flourishes in dry conditions.

42. Our imagination can be either helpful or discouraging when it begins to anticipate a course of action.

43. EXAMPLE: A hypercritical boss is always quick to discover his employees' faults, and this is often quite discouraging to them.

44. As a result, research and development in genetic engineering is more expensive, discouraging investment and hampering innovation.

45. || Single Market || Tax neutrality || Anti-relocation/ evasion || Potential additional revenue || Discouraging excessive risk taking, rent seeking, myopic behaviour

46. 24 If that was its method of discouraging tourists in their search for quaint old London pubs, it was highly successful.

47. Copperheads are known to rattle their tails to mimic rattlesnakes in the hopes of discouraging potential approaching predators

48. The damp, decaying vegetation in these bogs made the soil unusually acidic, discouraging the growth of most plants.

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

50. Economic prospects in the near future are discouraging because of widespread internal poverty and the burden of foreign debt.

51. But the harm caused by a political culture that makes huge material demands while discouraging economic initiative is incalculable.

52. An audio tape of your presentation will tell you if you're discouraging laughter by resuming your talk too soon.

53. But it also fulfils a wider social purpose in setting standards for the markets and in discouraging aberrant behaviour.

54. If that was its method of discouraging tourists in their search for quaint old London pubs, it was highly successful.

55. The aim of this is to avoid discouraging new investment, although the 10% share still represents an open-ended liability.

56. He took hard knocks at two board meetings in June and August, and carried the discouraging words home to his father.

57. 18 It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. 

58. The fact that, though they had been pared, no fewer than 13 charges still awaited Mr Nadir is discouraging.

59. My father made a few discouraging remarks about my academic abilities that have stayed with me to this day.

60. There is a separate question of whether free flows of long-term capital can be encouraged while discouraging some short-term capital movements.

61. Rather than ensconce the discouraging news in falsely hopeful language, the doctor imparted the diagnosis in a clear, straightforward manner.

62. Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.

63. 2 Possibly you have tried witnessing to relatives or acquaintances in the past and have found it somewhat difficult, even discouraging.

64. It is deeply discouraging that the government can struggle with the nation's budget for nearly a year and still fail to achieve anything.

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66. This version of the 30-year-old protocol gained notoriety in the WannaCry ransomware attack, although Microsoft had been discouraging its use even before.

67. Disulfiram, also known by the brand name Antabuse, is used as an effective treatment for chronic alcoholism by discouraging the consumption of alcohol

68. To curb an economy that's in danger of overheating, the Chinese government is discouraging its state banks from extending new loans to ventures in overbuilt industries —such as cement.

69. Interventions to reduce both work and general population exposure include promoting the use of alternative solvents in industrial processes, developing and implementing policies and legislation to remove Benzene from consumer products, discouraging domestic use of Benzene

70. Featuring eight Size 5 missiles and two size 7 torpedoes along with a pair of Gatling guns in a rotatable turret, the Ballista is a dedicated anti-air vehicle for discouraging any air incursion.

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