unencouraging

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Recent Examples of unencouraging The investigations and any response in this case by FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) are ongoing (read: pathetically slow and unencouraging). Shireen Ahmed, Time, 5 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unencouraging
Adjective
  • Immediate, irreparable harm When the government creates a policy that might violate the Constitution or federal law, affected people can sue in federal court to stop it.
    Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
  • Their outcomes are far from certain, and the cases might be decided only after irreparable damage has been done.
    Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Adrift but alive, dad (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), daughter (Luna Blaise), daughter’s unpromising boyfriend (David Iacono) and daughter’s younger sister (Audrina Miranda) are rescued by the mercenaries’ expedition.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
  • Australian gold The small town in Australia that’s spreading the story of Vegemite 04:50 Vegemite, an Australian delicacy with the unpromising base material of leftover brewers’ yeast, is so loved in the country there’s even a museum dedicated to it.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The usual one that pops into people’s heads is that fire seems to be an irreversible invention.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Socotra needs to implement similar protections before damage becomes irreversible, Van Damme said.
    Shane Farrell, NBC news, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Her memoir's first chapter finds her as a teenager inebriated outside an Arizona nightclub, already standing at a metaphorical crossroads between herself and her unrepentant desires to achieve her most heartfelt desires as professional goals.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • The writer becomes an unrepentant co-conspirator in the plot to knock down Spears, one breaking news item at a time.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025

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“Unencouraging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unencouraging. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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