discountenancing
Example Sentences
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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
Several bond houses wrote back, politely but firmly discountenancing the notion of preferring stocks to bonds as investments.
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
It culminates in a horrifying cupola, and is colored a discountenancing brown.
From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various
I kept my own counsel in this matter, as I had very good reasons for discountenancing any proposal to investigate the lunar scenery too closely.
From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks
