disapprobation

How To Use disapprobation In A Sentence

• They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
• Few thinkers today risk such disapprobation by questioning our attitudes to modern living.
• Moreover, such policy encouragement for partnered women to prioritise motherhood turns to disapprobation if those same women become single parents.
• You must know that though I grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.
• You will come here; you will observe what the artists are doing; and you will sometimes speak a disapprobation in plain words, and sometimes by a no less expressive silence. Selected English Letters
• And when we have the ability to exercise force it allows us to leverage our power in direct proportion to the moral disapprobation of the rest of the world.
• Yet such was her distress I was sorry for her, though I believed it to be rooted and grounded in falsity, and that she had no need to regard with such disapprobation her sister's being indebted to an English gentleman who gave her in all honour the best he had. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
• Meanwhile local farmers held a meeting at the Black Horse in Skipton to discuss the new regulations which had been met with universal disapprobation.
• When Walchendorp, the President of the Council, kicked his favourite hound, it was no proof of irritability of character that Tycho expressed in strong terms his disapprobation of the deed. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
• Here the witness paused with every appearance of looking for some token of disapprobation from the crowd. The Filigree Ball