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disapprovingly



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In a Vanity Fair profile a few years ago, the reporter notes disapprovingly when Goodman eats a corned-beef sandwich and cole slaw, asking “Aren’t we supposed to be on a diet?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

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

She clucked her tongue and shook her head at me disapprovingly.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles




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