unencouraged
- a word derived from encourage.
Example Sentences
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After which he was left undisturbed, and unencouraged, until the local milkman, who'd heard him on his morning rounds, somehow talked the family into getting the kid lessons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Custer's eyes looked the embarrassment of unencouraged frankness.
From Different Girls by Various
During this interval Leos did some unencouraged courting, but at last, "choked by his undertaking," he desisted.
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark
To such a nature the solitary years in Paris, the solitary return to California, the tentative and unencouraged approaches to her nieces, all made a dark memory.
From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
This rush had already begun when, early in the seventies, in the interest of her prospective brother-in-law, she approached me on the singular ground of the unencouraged sentiment I had entertained for her sister.
From Embarrassments by James, Henry
