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Disapproval   /dɪsəprˈuvəl/   Listen
Disapproval

noun
1.
A feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing.
2.
The expression of disapproval.
3.
An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group.  Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike.
4.
The act of disapproving or condemning.





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"Disapproval" Quotes from Famous Books



... had the Russians, by their nefarious appropriation of the northwestern corner of the continent and a recent piratical excursion in pursuit of otter, inspired the Spanish Government with a profound disapproval and mistrust, but a rumor had run up the coast that made every sea-gull look like the herald of a hostile fleet. This was young Arguello's first taste of command, and life was dull on the northern peninsula; he would have welcomed a declaration ...
— Rezanov • Gertrude Atherton
... a good-humored word besides her promise. She had given no sign of injury or disapproval; she was not one of the wincing sort; and the tremulous tramp was in her own chair before her back ...
— Stingaree • E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
... Mrs. Pankhurst? Somehow one thought she would never rest till she was in the Cabinet. And Christabel? And Annie Kenney? Married perchance to some permanent under Secretary of State and viewing "direct action" with growing disapproval. ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... brought about the very condition of mind he had laid himself out to produce. But he over-estimated his powers, and he made an irretrievably false step in trying to persuade Helen to elope with him to avoid her father's anticipated disapproval. ...
— Australia Revenged • Boomerang
... prescriptions of "roots and yarbs" for their "rheumatiz," "neuralgy," and "tissick;" and some took snuff together, while an ancient dame smoked a quiet pipe. And perhaps (since they were women as well as Puritans) they glanced with envy, admiration, or disapproval, or at any rate with close scrutiny, at one another's gowns and bonnets and cloaks, which the high-walled pews within the meeting-house had carefully concealed from any ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle


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