discouragement

Example Sentences

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Discouragement has the potential to run deep with Hunter, who hurt his neck in training camp last year and never saw the field.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Karzai’s cabinet approved a less powerful Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Discouragement of Vice in 2006 amid pressure from conservatives.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021

Discouragement is everywhere when everywhere is mapped and watched and regulated.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2015

Discouragement and stress are serious issues for ghost workers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discouragement was too alien to his sanguine temperament, else he might, with some show of reason, have abandoned all hope of struggling successfully against such odds.

From Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings by MacNutt, Francis Augustus