disapprovingly

Example Sentences

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I’m not here to collect sympathy, convert you to the church of AA, nor frown disapprovingly over proceedings from some moral high ground.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2023

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

The woman who originally made Lao Gan Ma is on the jar, staring disapprovingly at you, and that’s really important to me as well.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2021

I asked about that and Mr. Hartsfield looked me over, but not entirely disapprovingly.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam