How To Use Disapprobation In A Sentence
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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.
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‘I am wealthier than you’ as an attitude among youth earns our immediate disapprobation.
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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
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There are actors who would give away back teeth for this kind of disapprobation.
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He retorted with a disapprobation of shallow criticism.
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We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation.
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You must know that though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.
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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
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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
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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.
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For this purpose every seducement and fallacy is sought, the hopes still rest upon some new experiment till life is at an end; and the last hour steals on unperceived, while the faculties are engaged in resisting reason, and repressing the sense of the Divine disapprobation.
The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
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Given that they are the focus of the media, soccer players should, in my opinion, refrain from playing pranks that might incur national disapprobation, and, what's more, sully their reputation as the elite of society.
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My duty to him was my point of honour; his disapprobation was the one thing which I could not bear.
Apologia pro Vita Sua
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That the sixteenth chapter of Mr.G. did not excite the same or greater disapprobation, is a proof of the unphilosophical and indeed fanatical animosity against Christianity, which was so prevalent during the latter part of the eighteenth century. —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The fall of seventeenth-century art into critical disapprobation was not soon remedied.
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The elder Mr. Weller observed these signs and tokens with many manifestations of disgust, and when, after a second jug of the same, Mr. Stiggins began to sigh in a dismal manner, he plainly evinced his disapprobation of the whole proceedings, by sundry incoherent ramblings of speech, among which frequent angry repetitions of the word 'gammon' were alone distinguishable to the ear.
The Pickwick papers
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Broadly speaking, it's unfeminist, which is why young women are frowned on for stripping off, but this disapprobation is misplaced.
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Usury was but one aspect of capital, and met with moral and legal disapprobation.
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What would be the consequence if United States should now decide that it it simply cannot risk the worldwide disapprobation that would be involved in a military exercise against Iraq and backed off?
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The moral disapprobation of the US did not faze the Indian leadership at all.
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Charles assured her that she should want for nothing, and commended her for coming to him, and expressed in no measured terms his disapprobation of his father's cruel conduct, but was abruptly silenced by Louisa falling senseless on the floor.
Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
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No technological innovation except nuclear power has engendered more public disapprobation than genetically modified food, particularly in Europe, where the anti-GM movement is huge.
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Few thinkers today risk such disapprobation by questioning our attitudes to modern living.
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Moreover, such policy encouragement for partnered women to prioritise motherhood turns to disapprobation if those same women become single parents.
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You must know that though I grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.
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You will come here; you will observe what the artists are doing; and you will sometimes speak a disapprobation in plain words, and sometimes by a no less expressive silence.
Selected English Letters
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And when we have the ability to exercise force it allows us to leverage our power in direct proportion to the moral disapprobation of the rest of the world.
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Yet such was her distress I was sorry for her, though I believed it to be rooted and grounded in falsity, and that she had no need to regard with such disapprobation her sister's being indebted to an English gentleman who gave her in all honour the best he had.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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Meanwhile local farmers held a meeting at the Black Horse in Skipton to discuss the new regulations which had been met with universal disapprobation.
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When Walchendorp, the President of the Council, kicked his favourite hound, it was no proof of irritability of character that Tycho expressed in strong terms his disapprobation of the deed.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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Here the witness paused with every appearance of looking for some token of disapprobation from the crowd.
The Filigree Ball
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They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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I returned the communion vessels because, in a newspaper interview I read, you expressed your disapprobation of that particular theft.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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But in making the government they left this institution with many clear marks of disapprobation upon it.
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Even when a loud "cloop" in the dark passageway to the kitchen told that another bottle was being opened as the omelet came in, borne aloft by white-robed Suey, crowned with red poppies and blue blazes, and set triumphantly before the mistress of the feast, Harris could detect no flutter of disapprobation.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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Mr. Stiggins began to sigh in a dismal manner, he plainly evinced his disapprobation of the whole proceedings, by sundry incoherent ramblings of speech, among which frequent angry repetitions of the word 'gammon' were alone distinguishable to the ear.
The Pickwick Papers
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If he could only have been sure of her moral exemption from taint, a generous ardour, in reserve behind his anxious dubieties, would have precipitated Dudley to quench disapprobation and brave the world under a buckler of those monetary advantages, which he had but stoutly to plead with the House of
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Unbelief is the rejection, neglect, non-admission, or disapprobation of it, on the terms whereon, and for the ends for which, it is so proposed.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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Little brother strange elder brother is too inequitable, disapprobation.
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On the meeting of the legislature, the house of representatives expressed in pointed terms their disapprobation of the conduct of the governor.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
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I shall put moral indignation - or, more weakly, moral disapprobation - in the centre of this one.