discountenance
Example Sentences
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But when Hamilton pleaded a second time, Reverend Moore agreed, provided that if he lived, Hamilton would “employ all your influence in society to discountenance this barbarous custom.”
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2016
American principles of fair play discountenance attempts to condemn a person by compelling him to disclose his own transgressions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet—and here I stay!"
From Time Magazine Archive
With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her attempt to discountenance him with a stony stare combined rather pitifully with the outraged decorum and flush of fright on her face.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
