Words similar to discouraged

Example sentences for: discouraged

How can you use “discouraged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A two year agony of fact-finding panels and legal actions ensued, with losers both male and female: Scapegoat men were singled out for behavior their profession had never before discouraged; women who told of being pressured for sex found themselves alone, laughed at, or forced by the hostile environment to leave.
Further, farmworkers may not know how to contact legal services in their community or may be discouraged by their employer from contacting legal services in their community.
Of these, the majority discontinued their efforts for the same reasons that discouraged our headquarters units.
There comes a point in life, he wrote, when "wailing is rightly discouraged, and groans are also considered a signal of extreme weakness.
Sometimes I'm amused by all the religious posturing, and sometimes I'm quite discouraged.