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/dˌɪsɐpɹəbˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable
his uncompromising condemnation of racism
How To Use disapprobation In A Sentence
- Social incentives are the most powerful forces in our world - the reason you can't wear your underwear on your head is because of disapprobation.
- ‘I am wealthier than you’ as an attitude among youth earns our immediate disapprobation.
- He expressed in the strongest terms his disapprobation of his brotherÕs conduct; assured Maria, she should never want a protector whilst he lived; that when he was settled, if she liked it, she should come to him, and if he should marry, it should be such a woman as would love and be kind to his sister. Simple Facts; or, the History of an Orphan
- There are actors who would give away back teeth for this kind of disapprobation.
- He retorted with a disapprobation of shallow criticism.
- We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation.
- You must know that though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.
- Judge Field presided at a session of magistrates at Parramatta, when Eagar attempted to act as counsel: this was prevented by the court; and the judge, as chairman, expressed himself, in reference to Eagar, in terms of severe disapprobation and contempt, stigmatising him as a common _barrator_, or mover of quarrels, whom the The History of Tasmania , Volume II
- She wished to have conversed first upon the affairs of Eugenia with Edgar: but to name to him whither she was herself going, when she could not possibly name why; to give to him a surprise that must recoil upon herself in disapprobation, was more than she could endure. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
- We avail ourselves of the first opportunity which has been afforded us, of expressing our entire disapprobation of the style and manner of discussing public measures in this Colony.