Sample Sentences fordissuade (editor-reviewed)
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The ad features a woman dying of lung throat cancer in an attempt to dissuade people from starting to smoke cigarettes.dissuade = persuade someone not to do something
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The sanctions are intended to dissuade nuclear weapon development in other countries.
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Gallien thought the hitchhiker's scheme was foolhardy and tried repeatedly to dissuade him: "I said the hunting wasn't easy where he was going, that he could go for days without killing any game." (source)
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Gramps insisted on being with her while she underwent tests, though an intern had tried to dissuade him. (source)
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His teachers and friends tried to dissuade him, and his father was reluctant to write the speech for him. (source)
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I tried to dissuade these kind people from thinking they could do anything, but I gave them my card and told them they could call me. (source)
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Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme, assuring him that Mr. Darcy would consider his addressing him without introduction as an impertinent freedom, rather than a compliment to his aunt; that it was not in the least necessary there should be any notice on either side; and that if it were, it must belong to Mr. Darcy, the superior in consequence, to begin the acquaintance. (source)dissuade = persuade someone not to do something
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"Despite our rules, she couldn't be dissuaded," Mrs. Dunningham said. (source)dissuaded = persuaded not to do something
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I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.† (source)
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At the moment when Rostov and Ilyin were galloping along the road, Princess Mary, despite the dissuasions of Alpatych, her nurse, and the maids, had given orders to harness and intended to start, but when the cavalrymen were espied they were taken for Frenchmen, the coachman ran away, and the women in the house began to wail.† (source)
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A simple manly character need never make an apology, but should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion,[364] when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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It never dissuades her.† (source)
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It is I, you women, I make my way, I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable, but I love you, I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you, I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle, I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties, I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undissuadable means not and reverses the meaning of dissuadable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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That meanness wasn't enough to dissuade my grandfather.† (source)
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Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him. (source)dissuaded = discouraged
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Ron seemed determined to give neither his opinion nor his advice; he would not look at Harry, though when Hermione opened her mouth to try dissuading Harry some more, he said in a low voice, 'Give it a rest, OK?† (source)
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