discourager

"I mean you seem to have enough of the liquid 'fire- discourager' to douse any blaze that was ever started."

"Dig up, you venerable discourager of rising young talent!"

Much of the time Jason kept on his ear phones, than which there is no greater discourager of conversation.

He was always the encourager, never the discourager."

"A discourager field drives them back, but subtly.

He also wrote a sequel to the story, "The Discourager of Hesitancy".

Overhead, birds and colorful insects flitted inside the giant open terrarium, held captive by discourager fields.

"Discourager of Evil," Rose said.

"The discourager," I sneered.

Stockton later wrote "The Discourager of Hesitancy," a short story in which a man must choose correctly among apparently identical maidens or face instant death.

He had melted Maleke Fowler's reserve by dubbing the 25-year-old outfielder "the discourager" for having hit a leadoff home run in the last game.

As Tarzan neared the village of Mpingu, the chief, Atan Thome and Lal Taask sat smoking beside the fire that burned brightly in their camp as a discourager of predatory felines.