disapprovingly

Example Sentences

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Szasz transferred Williams’s setting of New Orleans to what Nelson Pressley in The Washington Post described disapprovingly as “a flavorless gray anyplace.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

The world was suddenly one big party at which everyone responsible talked disapprovingly about “Ozempic face” in judgment and horror at the idea of women taking these new “diet drugs.”

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2023

Our nation was founded by puritans, so as soon as people had a laugh over Santos, inevitably someone would shake their finger disapprovingly.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2023

This isn’t a problem, but I did catch myself staring disapprovingly at my image for an embarrassing amount of time during our calls.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021

“Look at that. She’s buying him candy,” said Arm disapprovingly as the boy’s mother fed money into the machine.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer