Definition of "discouragingly" [discouragingly]

• In a discouraging manner. (adverb)

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• "Other than that sad stack of discards, however, the garage was discouragingly neat—exhibiting the kind of cleanliness born of omission rather than effort, disuse rather than use."
• "There were discouragingly few entries, most of them concerning shortened gestation periods and overwhelming food cravings."
• "Ken, maybe you could begin by saying something about how – as with the Yoo case – the words “law” and “international law” are used by both non-lawyer writers/bloggers and (discouragingly) lawyer writers/bloggers to give the appearance of a kind of scientific validity to what is really just disagreement over ethics."