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

Nevertheless, their influence led the way in discountenancing the art, and it has so entirely died out that there is probably not a completely tattooed Maori head on living shoulders to-day.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember

And your discountenancing him will not make a particle of difference.

From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth

But all that would not keep him from openly discountenancing her judgment before people.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson