A feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing

Usage examples of disapproval.

When Abraham decided to bring Elizabeth home to meet his sickly mother, half expecting her disapproval, but hoping that by convincing her of his happiness she would understand his desire to marry a gentile, he went to see his father.

Poteen had walked in and handed them their hot, spiced cider with a sniff of disapproval over the wet tracks across the intricately woven Aubusson rug.

Miss Fitzpatrick her due, she did not belabor Eliza with disapproval once her niece was properly back inside the apartment and pointed toward the bed in the guest room.

Dierick, who has attached himself to Jacques as a sort of amanuensis with pretensions to Boswellian status, pursed his lips in disapproval of such out-of-place levity.

A small crease of disapproval appeared on his forehead, but when he shifted his gaze back to Brenn, his decision to leave well enough alone was plainly written on his face.

She commented on it with strong disapproval to her guardian, who had drawn up beside her at a check, but he merely looked faintly surprised, and said that the notion of Brummell muddied and dishevelled from a long day in the saddle was too absurd to be contemplated.

The waiter looks at him in disapproval, a buttonhead junkie going mad in his clean palm bar.

The hubbub began to subside slowly as Major - de Coverley paused in the doorway with a frown of puzzled disapproval, as though viewing something bizarre.

He glanced at my tousled hair and the smeared fucus and creta of my face, his expression compounded of inquiry, concern and a trace of moralistic disapproval.

Shaking his head in solemn disapproval, Jerry Cruncher led the way to a manhole in the road, into the socket of which he inserted a shining tool with which, in a practiced movement, he flipped the heavy manhole lid aside.

Concerto in D for flute filled the small car causing Desis One and Two to look at each other in disapproval and Pinkus to breathe steadily, deeply, for a few moments of peace.

America, under fifty years of age, have ever heard that half a century ago, the feeling of the medical profession, in the English-speaking world was almost unanimous in disapproval and condemnation of methods and of experiments which now pass without notice, and uncondemned.

The disapproval of any one of the members would, in effect, veto the nomination.

As boys, we learn to betray our future wives by mastering the subtle ways out mothers can be broken by our petulance and disapproval.

Paulin murmured, glancing across at Albertus, who shook his head minutely-but in nonrecognition, not disapproval.