The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discouragingly
Discouraging \Dis*cour"a*ging\, a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
discouragingly
adv. In a discouraging manner.
WordNet
discouragingly
adv. in a discouraging manner; "the failure rate on the bar exam is discouragingly high" [ant: encouragingly]
Usage examples of "discouragingly".
Its stutter-step around two cardboard tiers of Cape cranberries was discouragingly deft.
There was nothing particularly benevolent, however, about the discouragingly steady silenced Lugers held in their hands.
But even with blow-torches assisting the heat of a stove, the melting of super-chilled snow is a discouragingly slow process: soon we were reduced to pouring half-melted slush down the radiator cap, and finally to cramming snow itself down in order to keep going at all.