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Example sentences for "disapproval"

Lexicographically close words:
disappointingly; disappointment; disappointments; disappoints; disapprobation; disapprove; disapproved; disapproves; disapproving; disapprovingly
  1. Her brows were lifted, and her face showed unmistakably her decided disapproval of the performance.

  2. There is nothing else to excite disapproval in her dress, and inexperienced mortals would pronounce her age to be scarcely thirty.

  3. This scornful sniff, accompanying Mrs. Crane's evident disapproval of their dearest friend, was the only thing that the girls disliked about Mrs. Crane.

  4. Pearl showed such marked disapproval of Gladys when she remarked that she wished her father were in town so they could have gone to the races that an awkward silence fell on the group.

  5. She opened her eyes in disapproval when Hinpoha mentioned motion pictures.

  6. One of her characteristics was a steady disapproval of the sharp tricks and double dealings of which her cousin often boasted, and which Lance did not generally comprehend.

  7. Now he understood Mrs. Polwarth's dislike and Jack's blunt disapproval of that intimacy.

  8. At the same time she had never voiced her disapproval to him, in all probability because she did not think she had any right to intervene in a struggle of conscience.

  9. He has expressed absolute disapproval of your book in my presence on several occasions.

  10. Their disapproval of the old man's effort to hurry Providence could not have been better shown than in the failure of them all to comment on the rascally conduct of the Atlanta lawyer; they even chuckled over that part of the incident.

  11. I'm as green as a gourd in business matters; but the idea has hold of me, and I don't know that even your disapproval will make me let it loose.

  12. If Mr. Crooper had been a sensitive person he might have perceived the chilling disapproval in their glances, for they had just begun to be most unfavorably impressed with him.

  13. She had stood it only with a sturdy, rebellious disapproval through many of the years that preceded his death.

  14. All Mrs. Bergemann's rich fund of good nature shrank into arid disapproval of so one-sided a match.

  15. But accompanied by a disapproval of the ordinary practice of capital punishment.

  16. Bud's anger flared at the disapproval he read in Cash's eyes, his voice, the set of his lips.

  17. Just because Cash never drank or played cards, what right had he to charge the whole atmosphere of the cabin with his contempt and his disapproval of Bud, who chose to do both?

  18. She was his confidante, his defender, but he feared more the disapproval of her sweet eyes when he had done wrong than the threatened punishment of his uncle.

  19. Cutting off the head was a mode the people had of expressing disapproval of their conspicuous men.

  20. She knew they were failures, and he read her disapproval in every perfunctory and unenthusiastic line of her letter.

  21. And later, on a sleepless pillow, she puzzled, as she had often puzzled of late, as to how it was that she loved so strange a man, and loved him despite the disapproval of her people.

  22. Ruth's mind was quick, and her disapproval of her lover's views was buttressed by the contradiction she found in his contention.

  23. Miss Addison, who came with her cousins the Lattimores, looked with disapproval upon the punch, and disclosed her devotion to the W.

  24. Mrs. Trescott, after expressing wonder at the changes wrought in the ravine, and confiding to me her disapproval of the useless expense, had returned to the farm, impelled by that habitual feeling that something was wrong there.

  25. So much of this occurred that Captain Tolliver showed, by a stately refusal to see the joke, his disapproval of it--a feeling which he expressed in an aside to me.

  26. That this is done with the disapproval of the leading Masonic bodies of the country is shown by the action of the grand commanders of the Iowa and Missouri jurisdictions.

  27. He seemed to feel that as a man of business he should display a slight disapproval of such a casual family.

  28. Mr. Hazlewood, who never shouted even at the naughtiest boy in his school, shuddered faintly at his son's invitation and bowed to Miss Peasey with a formality of disapproval that seemed to include her in the condemnation of all he beheld.

  29. It had always been a trial, this disapproval of Wallace's mother.

  30. Anita, her dark eyes scanning her hostess with equal sharpness, seemed to express an equal disapproval of the country-cut gingham and huge white apron.

  31. Of course, there were some who candidly expressed their disapproval of the new president, but, so far, no real opposition was made, and it was hoped there would be none.

  32. The only form of knowledge in which we at once put unconditional trust and the disapproval of which amounts to madness, is the tautology A = A.

  33. There is very little intercourse between the younger boys at different houses, and there is an instinctive disapproval among the boys themselves of external relations.

  34. And now there's increasing disapproval at other haciendas; men are sick of the way they have been managed; they want to breathe .

  35. Angelina stared at him in the glass, until his eyes found hers, and he sensed her disapproval at once.

  36. The King of Spain, at the instigation of Godoy, disapproved the order of Morales, but so late that the news of the disapproval reached Louisiana only as the French were about to take possession.

  37. Of course if all Mrs. Baxter meant to convey was her own disapproval of the idea,--well, she conveyed so much.

  38. But temper and taste led to the same end as ignorance and simplicity; the philosopher and the housewife met on a common ground of disapproval and disdain.

  39. He had known that she disapproved, he had even braved her disapproval when he could not hoodwink or evade it.

  40. She doesn't look to me like a girl who cared a whit for social recognition," said Jeff quietly, although his lip had a curl that showed his disapproval of his family's snobbishness.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disapproval" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abjuration; aggravation; alienation; annoyance; apostasy; ban; belittling; blackball; blame; complaint; contempt; contradiction; criticism; declination; declining; demur; denial; depreciation; derogation; difference; disaccord; disaffection; disagreement; disappointment; disapproval; discard; discontent; disenchantment; disesteem; disfavor; disgrace; disillusion; disillusionment; disinclination; dislike; dismissal; disparity; displeasure; disregard; disrespect; dissatisfaction; dissension; dissent; dissidence; distaste; diversity; exasperation; exception; exclusion; flak; indignation; indignity; irritation; judgement; nonconformity; objection; opposition; ostracism; protest; rebuff; recantation; refusal; rejection; reprimand; repudiation; repulse; scouting; secession; underground; unhappiness; variance; vexation; withdrawal