express disapprobation
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Ruskin was disappointed with his former pupil, and Pater did not hesitate to express disapprobation to private friends; while he accepted incense from a disciple, he distrusted the thurifer.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
And the archdeacon raised his huge hands in the manner in which his friends are so accustomed to see him express disapprobation and astonishment.
From The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Lord Fitzwilliam, for attending a public meeting to express disapprobation at the means by which the meeting at Peterloo was dispersed, was dismissed from his office as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.
From Three Accounts of Peterloo By Eyewitnesses Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial by William Jolliffe
It was greeted by the indulgent audience with cries of indignation, peltings of apples, insults, hisses, whatever could most energetically express disapprobation of the lion turned lover.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
He was then hoisted upon the shoulders of some half-dozen patriots, notwithstanding a melancholy howl, by which he intended to express disapprobation of the whole proceeding.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various
