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approvingly

[ US /əˈpɹuvɪŋɫi/ ]
[ UK /ɐpɹˈuːvɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an approving manner
    she nodded approvingly

How To Use approvingly In A Sentence

  • The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
  • In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad. OPEN THREAD
  • The Financial Times called the spindly and demonstrative 38-year-old one of the “Gurus of the Future,” and even conservatives like George Will have written of him approvingly. As Markets Quake, Clinton And Obama Grab Econo-Gurus
  • The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
  • The coroner, a thin, elderly, spectacled man, dressed entirely in black, peered disapprovingly at the crowd and wearily sighed as he took his place at the table.
  • Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo WN.com - Business News
  • He looked disapprovingly at the row of empty wine bottles.
  • Mr. Olaster, a tall man with grizzled hair, looked over his glasses disapprovingly as she slipped into her seat near the door.
  • He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
  • The closest thing Latinos have is El Guapo's arch enemy - Edward James Olmos - who, at worst, may simply shake his head disapprovingly from his Beverly Hills rumpus room and brandish a microwave chimichanga at the television screen at news of a proposed Congressional Bill aimed at mandating that landscapers work while wearing proof of citizenship like a Flava-Flav clock. El Guapo: WANTED: Latino Al Sharpton
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