Words similar to discouraging

Example sentences for: discouraging

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

People who speculate on the odds can be either upbeat or quite discouraging depending on what ax they have to grind.
By discouraging future ethnic slaughters, that would give an added moral justification to saving the Kosovars.
Urban biases inevitably play a deterrent role, discouraging poor patients from seeking help.
The transformation of the inheritance tax into the "death penalty" provides more grist for satirists who wonder whether Republicans, having condemned the "marriage penalty" for discouraging marriage, now worry that the inheritance tax is discouraging death.
For a time, balagan was the most discouraging word in my vocabulary.