disapprobation

Example Sentences

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Although we can and should ascribe different levels of responsibility to people based on how senior they were and how involved their work was, none of them should escape the public’s moral disapprobation.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2020

Appropriation of Hinduism, quantum physics and all else is disapprobation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2020

Though the movie was subjected to a good deal of critical disapprobation, it was wildly popular.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2018

It is easy to lob moral disapprobation when we are not caught in the web of structural violence and intergenerational poverty ourselves.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016

“But is there not danger of Lady Catherine’s disapprobation here, my good sir? You had better neglect your relations than run the risk of offending your patroness.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen