discountenancing
Example Sentences
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Several bond houses wrote back, politely but firmly discountenancing the notion of preferring stocks to bonds as investments.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Gabon's 6,000 Frenchmen that meant only one thing: the U.S. had been behind the abortive coup in hopes of discountenancing le grand Charles.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had the effect of shutting his wife out of the conversation; of definitely snubbing and discountenancing her.
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
The length to which he dared go in discountenancing any restriction, even regarding his moral ideas, is illustrated in an incident related in his autobiography.*
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn
In that conference or congress of the people resolutions were unanimously adopted discountenancing the policy which led to the annexation of the two Republics.
From In the Shadow of Death by P. H. Kritzinger
