单词 | discountenance |
释义 | discountenance (once / 7596 pages) v WORD FAMILY discountenance: discountenanced, discountenances, discountenancing+/countenance: countenanced, countenances, countenancing, discountenance USAGE EXAMPLESSuch dishevelment had been sternly discountenanced since the time of Peter the Great. Huneker, James, Franz Liszt(2012) Emancipation, in spite of harsh laws passed to discountenance it, had rapidly gone on. Brown, George William, Baltimore and The Nineteenth of Apr...(2012) Gerard was ill at ease before, but this battery of eyes discountenanced him, and down went his eyes on the ground. Reade, Charles, The Cloister and the Hearth—A Tale...(2012) 1v look with disfavor on The republic soon discountenanced its few friends Hyper shame cause to be ashamed 2v show disapproval by discouraging any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced Hyper disapprove consider bad or wrong |
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