disapprobation
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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
Boys would pick on him, he said, but he refused to fight them, which only brought more disapprobation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
After his death, Raleigh’s History of the World had a bibliographical history almost as exotic as its author, replete with success, controversy and more royal disapprobation.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 25, 2017
“You must know that though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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