unencouraging

Had unencouraging news today from my agent and boy, hit the depression coaster with a vengeance.

Writers and Depression at SF Novelists 2009

The focus of the talks was on challenging young people to lead holy lives in the unencouraging environment of today's culture.

Wyoming Youth Retreat 2007 2007

The focus of the talks was on challenging young people to lead holy lives in the unencouraging environment of today's culture.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

His answers to her efforts to make conversation became terse and unencouraging, giving her the message that he preferred the privacy of his own silence to any attempt to create a more intimate mood between them.

The Christmas Bride Jordan, Penny 2006

The industrialist's demeanor remained unencouraging.

Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

The latter was a woman of somewhat unencouraging exterior, not the kind that invites confidences.

Piccadilly Jim 1928

What was the result of all this, upon the Spaniards -- this wealth of treasure and this unencouraging greeting?

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

When she in a most formal and unencouraging manner invited him to stop there, he eagerly accepted.

The Cost 1904

"Possibly: that is for you to say," was the unencouraging reply.

The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

Nothing happened that day except that some priests arrived, lifted the earthenware pot, examined their departed colleague, who by now had become an unencouraging spectacle, removed old dishes of food, arranged more about him, and went off.

The Ivory Child Henry Rider Haggard 1890