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Answer for the clue "Sound of crowd disapproval ", 4 letters:
hiss

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from hiss (v.).

Usage examples of hiss.

I reached around and grabbed the belt and hissed as fabric abraided my skin.

Now a sleet of bullets hissed through their ranks as they retired, and the gallant Lord Airlie, as modest and brave a soldier as ever drew sword, was struck through the heart.

Mary was just prevented from hissing it out by Alee entering through the open door.

They had brought with them a thing of the Great World, Hresh carrying one end and Taniane the other: that hollow tube of metal, hooded at one end, with a region of incomprehensible blackness held captive within that hood, and brilliant light sizzling and hissing at its entrance.

The news passed quickly around the village, and the he-anophelii came in great numbers to croon with Aum and hiss their feelings.

The second time she had heard them hiss with whatever passed for pleasure in their minds, and the next day, when she entered the meeting room with Aum, the Lovers stared at her with fresh wounds, blood crusting on their foreheads, scored deep in mirror images across their faces.

She went out the hissing doors and, with hundreds of other calm baggageless passengers, she waited for the bus she knew would take her south and into the mountains.

Resolute hissed at Banausic, as multiple individuals moved from the shadows in the warehouse district in Otedo.

Kerri and Bender alone with only the hissing of the oxygen to mar the silence.

As he dances by, feebly whacking the drum, Berel hears Mutterperl hiss.

Presently, after threading their way among a multitude of locomotives, with and without trains attached, that backed and advanced, or stood still, hissing impatiently on every side, they passed through the station to a broad planking above the river on the other side, and thence, after encounter of more locomotives, they found, by dint of much asking, a street winding up the hill-side to the left, and leading to the German Bierhaus that gives access to the best view of the cataract.

They excused themselves and went together to a chill rear chamber, where biogas flames hissed a continual cautionary note.

But the life-cry of that love has long since hissed away into no more than this idle and bitchy faggotry.

With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet.

The forty-foot barrels of the nine-inch guns moved restlessly, seeming to sniff for their prey, and the Blucher raced on, lifting a hissing white wave at her bows, vibrating and shuddering to the thrust of her engines as they built up to full speed.