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"But you do not know who or what she may be," I argued dissuasively.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

Nurses and mothers would anxiously pull away their little ones who were casting sheep's eyes at the sweetstuff: "Dirty!" they would say dissuasively; "dirty!"

From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by France, Anatole