express disapprobation
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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 Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
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
This was certainly no time for Madame Goesler to express disapprobation of the practices which were thus divulged.
From Phineas Redux 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
To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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