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

One can learn a good deal about a critic by noting his or her favorite words of approbation and disapprobation.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2018

Hated in the Nation is Black Mirror’s excursion into public shame: it takes a series of targets who have brought disapprobation upon themselves.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2016

“You must know that though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen