approbative
Example Sentences
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His supporters in New York, who range from Mayor Edward Koch to Philanthropist and Civic Leader Brooke Astor, also praise him in what has become an almost monotonously approbative Gregorian chant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had one been able to explode a ton of dynamite when Mr. Fischer ended it would have been accepted by the audience as not more than a fitting amount of approbative noise.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
You are sensitive, approbative, delicately organized; your whole nature inclines you to give way and yield to the nature of those around you.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
His glance, as it invaribly did when they met, seemed to make swift, approbative note of every smallest particular of her appearance.
From Only an Incident by Grace Denio Litchfield
Approbativeness has its pole directly outward from these corners, and hence the approbative laugh does not turn the corners of the mouth upward, but draws them straight back, or outwardly.
From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by L. N. Fowler
