discouragingly

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.

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?

It was more of the same, discouragingly, for the Giants.

But the woman’s experience demonstrates that even when older people decide to seek treatment, finding and affording therapy can prove discouragingly difficult.

More recently, as understanding of the pandemic develops, that metric is shifting, discouragingly, to months – even years.