discourager

"Dig up, you venerable discourager of rising young talent!"

Chapter 33 2010

It was just that, sometimes, clients emerged who resented the disruption caused to their affairs by someone running off with their cash or their drugs, and who insisted upon an example being made pour discourager les autres, as some of his Quebecois contacts liked to put it.

The Whisperers John Connolly 2010

He is the ultimate discourager, running off with your desire to live, improve, and become.

Do You Know Who I Am? Angela Thomas 2010

It was just that, sometimes, clients emerged who resented the disruption caused to their affairs by someone running off with their cash or their drugs, and who insisted upon an example being made pour discourager les autres, as some of his Quebecois contacts liked to put it.

The Whisperers John Connolly 2010

Not exactly what Satan, the ultimate discourager, wants either of us to believe.

Do You Know Who I Am? Angela Thomas 2010

One hears rumours that A slingshot + Macadamia nuts are an effective & infrequently lethal discourager.

Cheeseburger Gothic » The comments that don’t make it in. 2009

Here, she explained, her part was that of discourager of enthusiasm, but repression was never practised in a more sympathetic and discerning spirit.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

"I mean you seem to have enough of the liquid 'fire-discourager' to douse any blaze that was ever started."

Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air Victor [pseud.] Appleton

"Koku is a good discourager," said Mr. Swift, with a chuckle.

Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam Victor [pseud.] Appleton

The lady, after looking at the child, said something or other to her companion; and, as we turned away at the corner, we heard the discourager of vagrants apologizing to himself, and also reading a severe lecture on the impropriety of alms-giving.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various