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- adjective Not
encouraged .
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Examples
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He said a brusque good night and walked out, leaving them all feeling very unencouraged.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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He said a brusque good night and walked out, leaving them all feeling very unencouraged.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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Even total strangers staying for more than a day in our house have started seeing, unwarned and unencouraged in ANY way, our house gnomes.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2009
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She was every unencouraged artist, every unacknowledged princess.
Reality Bites 2007
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Men and women never struggle so hard as when they struggle alone, without witness, counsellor, or confidant; unencouraged, unadvised, and unpitied.
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How could she, orphan as she was called, and unencouraged, come to be a noble and generous-hearted woman?
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No, no; having let him go on, unhelped, uncheered, unencouraged, through the days when he needed so sorely your warm sympathy, and craved so hungrily your cheer, you may as well sleep on and take your rest, letting him alone unto the end.
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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Mrs. Custer's eyes looked the embarrassment of unencouraged frankness.
Different Girls Various
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Are you realizing what this all meant to my Carl -- until recently reading and pegging away unencouraged in his basement study up on the Berkeley hills?
An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker
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It could not have been in the nature of this artless child, unencouraged and alone, to have been an impostor.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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