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

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

Citizens are weighed by their economic activity, with moral disapprobation attached to those who are inactive.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 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