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
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.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2020
Appropriation of Hinduism, quantum physics and all else is disapprobation.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2020
Citizens are weighed by their economic activity, with moral disapprobation attached to those who are inactive.
From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2017
“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
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