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discouraging
admonitory, bleak, depressant, deterring, dismal, dissuading, expostulatory, forbidding, hindering, overawing, prohibitive, startling
Definition
adj.
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
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Reluctantly, I informed her of the
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fact the dead assailant wasn't the Delabama killer as we'd assumed.
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"This is very
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," said I.
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Under these
discouraging
conditions the work progressed slowly.
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All the oracles appealed to have been
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It was a long and
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hunt.
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Still, there was a slight return of hope, which survives under the most
discouraging
circumstances.
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Grubb with every interview, and she knew that her enthusiasms were as
discouraging
as her apathies.
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