frowned on
Example Sentences
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Church leaders in the Philippines have frowned on the crucifixions and self-flagellations, saying Filipinos can show their deep faith and religious devotion without hurting themselves and by doing charity work instead, such as donating blood.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2023
The family of Sergiu Celibidache, another conductor who frowned on recording, took the opposite position, allowing the release of many albums after his death.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 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
Courts have frowned on sharing nonpublic data among competitors.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2022
A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
