dissuasive

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To some extent, catching them means you were not dissuasive enough in the first place.

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Quick take

That which dissuades; a disincentive.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

That which dissuades; a disincentive.

adjective

Tending to dissuade, or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dissuasive.

noun

That which dissuades; a disincentive.

adjective

Tending to dissuade, or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory.

Example sentences

To some extent, catching them means you were not dissuasive enough in the first place.

Well they should start making proper fines to BigTech, not those jokes that are not dissuasive at all.

If AI is so dangerous even for the owners, it will end up next to nuclear missiles, as a dissuasive artefact.

The application of the law has in the meantime been changed to allow for more dissuasive measures instead of repressive ones.

If people believe they have fun picking trash, I'm afraid that wouldn't be very dissuasive against more littering...

Of course to work properly a trust based system need some conditions which are not met today: transparency and dissuasive sanctions if someone cheat.

I’m not arguing against compensation and other dissuasive/retributive punishment - I did call it a misdeed.

Edit: on second read I realized the tone of this comment could be read as dissuasive.

That's what deterring a lot of people now, wasting months of travel and money just to have it be worthless seems to be very dissuasive.

Ambitions are great and I dont want to be dissuasive, but monumental tasks require monumental effort and monumental effort requires monumental care.

As a youth I was quite sympathetic to her ideals but her writing is so bad that it had a dissuasive effect.

Si vis pacem, para bellum - only an overwhelming imbalance of force is dissuasive enough to avoid conflict and enjoy a relatively free and safe global environment.

Quote examples

A lawyer also serves as a dissuasive measure taking out the sign on your forehead saying "I'm a pigeon".

Paragraph 1 states that "the imposition of administrative fines [...] in respect of infringements of this Regulation [...] shall in each individual case be effective, proportionate and dissuasive".

Better: insist that the tool not only be capable of outputting the chosen format, but that it do so by default, as a matter of course, and without any error, warning, or other dissuasive dialog (e.g., "some formatting changes may be lost") in the process.