discouragingly

Example Sentences

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With the price of synthetic fertilizer now discouragingly high for some farmers, he said, his plant has more orders than it’s able to supply.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2022

Instead of reporting the number of people vaccinated — discouragingly, only 62 percent of the population is fully vaccinated; far fewer with boosters — why not highlight the number of people unvaccinated?

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

Here, there is talk not of imminent innovation but of discouragingly minute work proceeding on many slow-moving fronts over decades.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

But what it demands of Kit, and of watchers, is confusing and discouragingly unfair.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2019

He located Hubbard Glacier, which looked discouragingly far away from Seward.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan