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Sentence Examples Social disapproval of ethnic exogamy is lessening, though the government unofficially discourages it. A dog might sarcastically wag its tail to express disapproval of being served kibble yet again. The placing of this paean in the mouth of Cranmer would defuse any audience disapproval of a Mariological subtext. As I tucked into this steaming Bunter-sized platter out on the darkening waters, I swear I heard the seals give a loud bark of disapproval. But despite worldwide disapproval, these thumbless inbreds are emigrating in droves. A wedding that was widely billed as beset by disasters and disapproval became a day of warm smiles, laughter and even the odd decent joke. Inside, she felt like shaking her head in disapproval but she knew not to in a time like this. Now, I have to go think of new ways to make my relatives shake their head in disapproval at me. Staring at him, Rena shakes her head in disapproval and sets her fork down. When she laid her hand on her grey suedes, she could see him shaking his head in disapproval. Mattias shouted at the officer, loudly voicing his disapproval at his treatment. The use of slang has been common among doctors for years, despite official disapproval of derogatory terms. Before he could finish, the crowd showed their disapproval by booing him off the stage. Andrew shook his head in disapproval and bopped me on the forehead with his index finger. For anyone who sees this fact clearly, neutrality, silence or private disapproval are not options. He spent his early life courting disapproval, mincing down the corridors in front of the religious brothers to avoid conforming. Meanwhile, the London School of Economics and the Institute of Directors have also chorused their disapproval of the Bill over the last week. He then slipped out of the cabin, and hasped the door on the outside, in spite of Clarice's shrill and scathing disapproval. Eventually, by a series of stratagems, and in the face of continuing Treasury disapproval, he acquired it for the museum by instalments. I didn't say anything, just led him into the inn, my lips clamped tightly together in disapproval. Show More Sentences China, which prides itself in its trade with the U.S., is the favorite target of disapproval and censure. It earned him a scowling hiss of disapproval from Dendria and a punch in the shoulder from Naoise for his comedic troubles. But clerical disapproval did not undermine the appeal of chivalric culture, with its glorification of courage, loyalty, and military ability. He then turned, ignoring Brant's look of disapproval, and carried her sure-footedly inside. For a moment, she was occupied with the task of scrutinizing everything in the parlor, clucking her tongue in disapproval. Jackson filled in the form as best he could and handed it back to the nurse, who looked over it with a cluck of disapproval. Amidst grunts and clucks of disapproval, I managed to lose myself in the crowd. Daniel pulled a face at Arthur, making clear his disapproval and dislike of Alicia's suitor. Matt frowned in disapproval and started pulling the car out of the driveway. Ignorant of anyone's disapproval, Audrey shared her expectations of her daughter's fairness with anyone who would listen. He made the most unpalatable insinuations and unpleasant comparisons without hurting anyone's feelings and without giving cause for disapproval. Females conform to their peers more than do males, but there is greater social disapproval for female delinquency. He faced a chorus of disapproval during PMQs when he stood up to talk about National Carers Week. But, like his twin before, he too took a poke at me, which just barely missed as I ducked behind mom, who was frowning in disapproval. Perhaps he discerns the freight train of public disapproval coming his way. He kept his voice neutral, but the left side of his upper lip curled slightly in disapproval. The nurse stared at me with a look of disapproval on her face, no doubt because of the cuss word that I used. The look the officer had given Ian had been furtive, almost guilty, and Ian sensed disapproval in the man's silence. If a union met with his disapproval anywhere in his earldom, the proposal could be voided. Catching a hint of disapproval, the guests decamped to a local hostelry, where so much drink was taken they were ejected. Show More Sentences Jacqueline opened her mouth in protest, but at his obvious disapproval, decided against it. Luckily we like devil-may-care, feisty dames who laugh in the face of disapproval and adversity. I know he doesn't hear that one much because he managed to communicate stunned, silent disapproval at my effrontery over the telephone. On the other, it provided him with a band of assassins that could eliminate any PLO leader that met with his disapproval. The Empress' disapproval and dislike of the new Crown Princess did not soften over time. In any case, even if he does complain or voice disapproval, the US will probably just go it alone anyway. If I do see any fish today, I will certainly frown at them, to express my disapproval. Bus drivers have voiced their disapproval over their proposed relocation following the sale of a bus garage. A few women hesitantly expressed their disapproval, but the doctor was in full flow by then. Despite some voices of disapproval within the Chamber the increase was passed. All present spoke with her, were curious about her, and none of them passed a hint of disapproval. Disgust or disapproval shouldn't be enough of a reason to prevent something by law. When boys were being cruel to others, I protected my status by gently expressing my disapproval. It's as if a person's tentative tone allows them to retract the statement if it is met with criticism or disapproval. This he did in the face of disapproval and sharp disagreement from his peers in the West. She first arrived in London in the mid-Sixties, in no doubt of her father's disapproval and contempt. Yesterday's Senate expression of disapproval was a good sign, but will die in the House. I started up at him with a fiery, angry gaze, and his face contorted in disapproval and disgust. Perhaps because it made him indignant, and he wanted to express his disapproval to the world. There is no visible change, but to the ear accustomed, it is the noise of disapproval, of distaste. Show More Sentences Most do not give reasons for disapproving the demolition, just expressing their disapproval of the proposal. The show fanatics behind kept clucking in disgust and making noises of disapproval. There is very little result in trying to change oneself out of dissatisfaction and disapproval. I climb out and watch him drive away like a maniac as I shake my head in disapproval. And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment. He kept his disappointments to himself, a quiet murmur of disapproval usually being as far as it went. Our dealings with our pasts are not all judgemental, not all concerned with moral disapproval or approval. While the industry insists it must stick together and speak with one voice, there have been individual voices of disapproval. There was no disapproval in his expression, only a slight wry lifting of his lips. They also required the University to take no action motivated by hostility, animus, or disapproval toward Brady's pregnancy. The diplomat explained that people were booing, an expression of disapproval. Cited instances of anti-Americanism include an extremely wide spectrum of disapproval, from petty claims to sensible criticisms. At the sound of the girls' skirts rustling, the men gave a start and began expressing their disapproval. The crowd was vocal in its disapproval, responding with hoots, catcalls and a hail of empty bottles, apple cores and other missiles. I wasn't sure there was any part of my life she did approve of and it wasn't as if she believed in quiet disapproval. Such rows usually end up with Tanya storming out of the pub and staying out until her disapproval has been duly noted. The wider feelings of distrust or dislike for the Irish harbored by some passengers on board were concentrated in the disapproval of their dancing and general merrymaking. Consternation froths up into a fragrant tizz of sympathetic disapproval. Perhaps, in the absence of police, mere pedestrians, unable to toot in disapproval, should signify anger by raising one or more fingers to these motorised plonkers. In his own life, he hard-headedly defended his rights as an Egyptian citizen, applying for positions and grants in the face of official disapproval. Show More Sentences Verbal disapproval, when used alone, has been shown to increase noncompliance, and shouted commands often result in excitatory effects in preschoolers. He looked at me, a mixture of disapproval and hearty congratulations. Even though most of me was protesting witlessly against my decision, I pushed myself past their disapproval and uttered the secret that I finally found the courage to confess. The intercorrelation of parent disapproval of the youth's involvement in risk behavior and youth intentions to engage in sexual risk behavior was low, but notable. While critics felt the season was inspired, some fans voiced their disapproval. Mustering a coalition of disapproval for the World Cup should be much easier than it would be for an Olympiad. Hardline media have roared their disapproval and prominent conservative politicians have joined in. Still, Governor Oops boasts a 55 percent approval average, with just 33 percent disapproval, putting him 22 points in the black. Mr. Knightley expressed his disapproval of Frank's behavior and Emma's vision of him by contrasting what he called French amiableness with English amiableness. On the Allied side it became a synonym for treasonable or hostile activity, so that to call people collaborators was to express strong disapproval for their actions. He practiced law at Florence and observed with optimate disapproval the increasing disinclination of Giuliano and Lorenzo to share power with anyone but their intimates. She clucked her tongue, apparently in disapproval, and turned away. A low murmur of disapproval rippled throughout the audience. Diet members are voicing disapproval and news organizations are standing opposed. Privately he can hear the mutterings of disapproval and disappointment. The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens. He saw his mother's look of disapproval, but chose to ignore it. I shook my head, feeling the urge to cluck my tongue in disapproval. His disapproval is a full two points lower, a trend that has widened over the past month. The plan has set off a chorus of disapproval from conservationists outraged at the possibility of surrounding the historic site with malls and fast-food outlets. Show More Sentences It is significant that the expression of public disapproval embodied in the Western Australian three strikes law is directed in practice so narrowly at youth offenders. Factor 1 concerned disapproval and efforts to dismiss the thought. If little has changed regarding governmental disapproval of bad language and bawdy behavior on TV and radio, things certainly are different for Penn these days. Even the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, a building designed with Ruskin's collaboration, met with his disapproval. Anything that pertains to West or Westernisation of any sort finds quick disapproval among them. She had long ago accepted his disapproval, but she had perfect trust in him and his leechcraft as she had had at Hugh's bedside in Bordeaux. The liberal newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has also made clear its disapproval of the film's lionisation of the Bielski brothers. Palmer expressed his disapproval in a sermon addressed to the Westminster Assembly. After considerable success in kart racing, he moved to the Formula Ford series to the disapproval of his father. Despite the disapproval of local tribes, Al Thani continued supporting Ottoman rule. When Sullivan turned to comic opera with Gilbert, the serious critics began to express disapproval. Aware of Cal and Ruth's disapproval, Rose rebuffs Jack's advances, but realizes she prefers him over Cal. In October 1943, aged 80, and to the disapproval of his children, he married his secretary and mistress, Frances Stevenson. In Ion, Socrates gives no hint of the disapproval of Homer that he expresses in the Republic. Laurens Reael and Steven van der Hagen wrote with disapproval on how the Heren XVII treated the interests and laws of the Maluku population. Even though the Federal Rules of Evidence are statutory, the Supreme Court is empowered to amend the Rules, subject to congressional disapproval. It was welcomed by the Wordsworth Trust, but attracted the disapproval of some commentators. The prominence given to the topics of mesmerism and clairvoyance heightened the general disapproval of the book. His father's disapproval of such friends was a further cause of considerable tension between them. The rates of disapproval are similar in other post-Soviet countries. Show More Sentences Once again, my little attempt to charm her with humour was met with a ceilingward lifting of the eyebrows in finicky disapproval. As she departed her glance just flitted over my face in disapproval. However, William Cecil, Nicholas Throckmorton, and some conservative peers made their disapproval unmistakably clear. Democracies, where the populace was allowed to show overt disapproval of the state, were thought particularly vulnerable. The porteira quit radiating disapproval, since Bartolomeu brought her cash but also trays of food, including a menagerie of creampuff animals under a spun-sugar cage. He requires of his fellow man obedience to a very creditable code of morals, but he observes without shame or disapproval his God's utter destitution of morals. The mind boggles at the thought of all those men of the cloth tuttutting with disapproval as they peer into the window of their local Ann Summers. The new party is surfing a rising wave of schoolmarmish disapproval of how we've just ruined our lovely democratic republic with the things we vote for. He was offered a seat on the Council of India, the body created to advise the new Secretary of State for India, but declined, citing his disapproval of the new system of rule. It was this lack of discretion and their public admission of the relationship which created accusations of polygamy and earned them the moral disapproval of English society. Celtic expressed disapproval of these protests, saying they were damaging to the image of the club and its fans, and pledged to ban those involved. The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval. If an objection is not raised and proceedings are allowed to continue without disapproval, it will be held that the party has waived its right to do so. Its repeated use in Freeman's Journal throughout June 1830 appears to bear reference to his resolute political will, with taints of disapproval from its Irish editors. To his father's disapproval, Robert joined a country dancing school in 1779 and, with Gilbert, formed the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club the following year. She objected on the grounds of the King's disapproval, but her mother dismissed his complaints as motivated by jealousy, and forced Victoria to continue the tours. The nominations of justices are endorsed by individual politicians in the legislative branch who vote their approval or disapproval of the nominated justice. Anxious to return to the capital, he had kept silent over his disapproval of government policies so that he would not be prevented from getting the job. Examples from Classical Literature But it does not scruple to mark its disapproval by passively hindering him at every turn. The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation. I knew she was pinging his Whuffie and I caught her look of surprised disapproval. It is very doubtful whether he was a Huguenot, and whenever in his works he refers to pederasty it is with strong disapproval. Nothing could be easier, more obvious, than her disapproval of a moneyless boy. In the late 1960s the PCR was disturbed by the extent to which abstract art had blossomed despite party disapproval. There was instant and clamant disapproval, each one of us urging an unquestionable claim to the guardianship of the orphan Menace. Her voice was defiant, as if deprecating in advance any cut-and-dried disapproval. But the shack filled with his disapproval of her reluctance to free him from his promise. Others, such as Aristarchus, were spitted on their own critical signs of disapproval. If he kept her out of the radius of disapproval, she might never feel a shadow of regret. Seeing Brad and Dan, the receptionist regarded them with cold disapproval. She looked at K. defiantly, but there was no disapproval in his eyes. At the caravansary there had been sharp disapproval of the whole thing. He looked with interest and curiosity and some disapproval at the couple. That surely would have been sufficient indication of their disapproval. Mrs. Lyon and Mrs. Weston looked after her in amazed disapproval. She knew they were failures, and he read her disapproval in every perfunctory and unenthusiastic line of her letter. Anne's disapproval of the whole project showed itself in the haughty uplift of her head and the studied politeness of her remarks. The tender admiration in Adam's face was slightly shadowed by reluctant disapproval. Show More Sentences Philip looked at his uncle with disapproval when he took a second piece of cake. Hopkins, an English actress, and, the match meeting with parental disapproval, had himself taken to the stage as a profession. She went out of the room with disapproval in every line of her back. On prejudiced or unsupported judgment the Master set His disapproval. Jack regarded the scene in amazement, not untinged by disapproval. He endeavored, in a general way, to express a particular disapproval, and only succeeded in arousing the ire and opposition of his father-in-law. She could not endure Jane's disapproval, although she would never have confessed to such a weakness. The explosion of disapproval, which nothing but Silver's black looks had restrained, broke out immediately the doctor had left the house. He remembered his long travels in Germany, he remembered on his return his growing disapproval of English slackness, her physical and moral decadence. Stringer nodded his head approvingly, and for a time they continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Never a hearty breakfaster, he had found himself under the influence of her wordless disapproval physically unable to consume the fried egg that confronted him. My elder companion, the next moment, at any rate, blotted out everything but her own flushed face and her loud, shocked protest, a burst of high disapproval. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of disapproval? Words that rhyme with disapproval What is the plural of disapproval? What is the adverb for disapproval? What is the adjective for disapproval? What is the noun for disapproval? Translations for disapproval Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words disapprobation disappoints disappointments disappointment disappointingly disappointing disapprove disapproved disapproves disapproving disapprovingly disarm 11-letter Words Starting With d di dis disa disap disapp disappr disappro disapprov disapprova