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Use "discouragingly" in a sentence
"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."