express disapprobation

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Not an iota of the whole performance, at that time, but seemed to me to be perfect; and I should have readily quarrelled with the man who should have happened to express disapprobation.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

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

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

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

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