frown upon

VERB
  1. look disapprovingly upon
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How To Use frown upon In A Sentence

  • The Chinese cultural authorities tend to frown upon these sorts of things, but Garrington said he's been comfortable with the steamier content because the cast has been fine with it.
  • In addition, due to the impact of Chinese traditional values, the public has high expectations of donors, which means Chinese frown upon the philanthropy which appears to have ulterior motives.
  • A majority of Indians frown upon intimacy in public.
  • Piety will frown upon the man who has inherited goods from the impious ; that is, until he takes his style of dress from his own father.
  • And I think that a lot of Kenyan mothers as well would frown upon hearing that someone had a tattoo.
  • I frown upon smoking in public restaurants.
  • I guess banks always frown upon clients lugging a large amount of cash at a time.
  • Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord, though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God's favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Frank:That's OK. But some companies frown upon moonlighting.
  • Generally defragging is not necessary on OS X and some people even frown upon it. Mac OS X Defragmenting | Evil Genius Chronicles
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