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discountenancing
noun as in refusal
Strong matches
noun as in turndown
Strong matches
- abnegation
- ban
- choice
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- denial
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- disfavor
- dissent
- enjoinment
- exclusion
- forbidding
- interdiction
- negation
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- option
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- rebuff
- refutation
- regrets
- rejection
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- reversal
- veto
- withholding
- writ
Example Sentences
He had the effect of shutting his wife out of the conversation; of definitely snubbing and discountenancing her.
Three years after this pleasant event he incurred the king's wrath by discountenancing his majesty's authority over the Church.
I wish, however, that in some future publication of yours, you would set a discountenancing mark upon them.
This implies dealing discreetly with the offender instead of directly discountenancing him.
It culminates in a horrifying cupola, and is colored a discountenancing brown.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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