Discouraging Definition

Discouraging Sentence Examples

• No other state has given so vigorous a test of the ordinary American general-property tax, and the results have been as discouraging as elsewhere.

• Being possessive of you and discouraging you from making other friends.

• But there was another movement, whose origins went back for many centuries, which they were far from discouraging, and were prepared to utilize when it suited their convenience.

• The system was revised in the 1830s because it was viewed as discouraging work by interfering with the laws of supply and demand relating to labor.

• In these pagan regions the Sudan government encouraged the work of missionary societies; both Protestant and Roman Catholic, while discouraging propaganda work among the Moslems.