A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.

So far from friendship being an institution whose value is recognised and understood, it is at best scantily acknowledged, and is often actually discountenanced and misunderstood.

Mr Macgregor stiffened at the word 'nigger', which is discountenanced in India.

'Mrs' was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party—you were supposed to call everyone 'comrade'—but with some women one used it instinctively.

The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation.

These were rejected by Parliament, which discountenanced the amalgamation of competing lines but gave broad approval in theory to end-on amalgamations.

Discountenance

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