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 Wilde, Oscar
To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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 Trollope, Anthony
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
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
