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disapprobation

noun as in disapproval

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The report claimed that the controversy was his doing; that he “instigated” the first news stories about the bones to “bring disapprobation on the museum” and “to personally discredit Monge.”

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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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Last week she expressed the ultimate disapprobation of unfollowing Ms. Hollis on Instagram.

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An account of a gay man’s birthday party in the West Village, crashed by a straight college buddy, it earned its writer disapprobation with respect to its ostensible display of self-hating homosexuals.

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Others tweeted their disapprobation: “We will not be shopping at your store. Enjoy your Grim Reaper special.”

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