dissuasive

[ dih-swey-siv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1600–10; dissuas(ion) + -ive

They will have to pay dissuasive prices on their cost per click to challenge your position.

The meal was as dissuasive as the washing arrangements, and I was glad when the trumpet summoned us to coach.

These two are always joined together, and are a dissuasive from marrying a widow, because she is often involved in law suits.

And with rapidity and confusion, she poured out a multitude of dissuasive arguments, some contradicting the others.

He certainly does intend what he says as a dissuasive from a certain course of erroneous conduct.

From a safe distance on the running-board, he flourished this, whooping the while in a shrill and dissuasive manner.

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