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

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

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

When registering disapprobation, he always reverted back to her childhood nickname.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee