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
Gail O’Neill, a journalist and former model, said that for some, Ms. Keys has become a Rorschach test, and the disapprobation for the singer’s personal choice comes from women who are measuring themselves against it.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016
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
When registering disapprobation, he always reverted back to her childhood nickname.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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