express disapprobation

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This was certainly no time for Madame Goesler to express disapprobation of the practices which were thus divulged.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

Roughly speaking, then, only one out of ten could be got to express disapprobation of the free comparison of the results of science with the statements of the canonical books.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

Of course, these words are intended to express disapprobation, and carry a doubt as to the fitness of Vassar College to educate girls.

From The Education of American Girls by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

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

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 Jolliffe, William