frowned on
Example Sentences
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The music that had been frowned on by the bosses in the 70s was now classic rock and he had a loyal fanbase who recognised him as one of their own.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024
We work in broken systems, where asking for time off is frowned on.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023
Amish quilters preferred simple, geometric patterns and colors; the community frowned on overly pictorial motifs and multicolored patterns.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023
As a classicist, he frowned on rock and roll as an "expression of base passions" and once called popular music a "cult of banality".
From Reuters • Dec. 28, 2022
Theodore Bernstein, The Careful Writer: “There is nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive... except that eighteenth- and nineteenth- century grammarians, for one reason or another, frowned on it.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
