adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a discouraging report on the economy
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Despite discouraging viewing figures for their movie "For the Boys", Paramount decided to try to make another similar film.
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It's very discouraging to find out that your own team members have been lying to you.
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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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My father made a few discouraging remarks about my academic abilities that have stayed with me to this day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Crime is seen as only identifiable by the discouraging response it evokes.
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It also includes discouraging cultural traits that have outlived their usefulness and may be otherwise harmful to society.
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My slight personal acquaintance with the subject of all this discouraging impersonal solemnity seemed slightly ridiculous.