Definition of Discouraging

Discouraging

of Discourage

Causing or indicating discouragement.

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Causing, Discourage, Discouragement, Indicating, Of, Or

Discouraging Quotations

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Barbra Streisand

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
Bo Derek

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
Ed Belfour

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
Steve Lacy

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
Paul Getty

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
Adam Schiff

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
Lucas Papademos

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
Al Lopez

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
James Talent

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'
Ronald Graham

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
Brenda Ueland

It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
Jerry West

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Discouraging Translations

discouraging in German is entmutigend, entmutigend, entmutigenden
discouraging in Italian is scoraggiante

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