Crossword clues for disapprobation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disapprobation \Dis*ap`pro*ba"tion\, n. [Pref. dis- + approbation: cf. F. d['e]sapprobation. Cf. Disapprove.] The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.
We have ever expressed the most unqualified
disapprobation of all the steps.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s; see dis- + approbation.
Wiktionary
n. An act or expression of condemnation or disapproval, especially on moral grounds.
WordNet
n. an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable; "his uncompromising condemnation of racism" [syn: condemnation] [ant: approbation]
Usage examples of "disapprobation".
Lhyn, not yet ready to, forgive her husband, bustled within the tent, emerging to shake blankets or comb furs with sidelong glances of disapprobation at the men.
Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation.
The leaders of the government began to fear him, for they considered him one of the most earnest friends of the plebeians, and thought he had not consented to the death of Giorgio Scali from disapprobation of his proceeding, but that he might be left himself without a rival in the government.
The disproportions hurt the eye, and convey a disagreeable sentiment to the spectators, the source of blame and disapprobation.
She begrudges him his disapprobation, feeling he is equally at fault for so obviously favoring Aaron, leaving her the child to whom she has the least to say.
He showed no sign of it, but Dysart, perfectly well aware of his disapprobation, could think of no other reason to account for his sudden friendliness.
It is affirmed that in the country where this tendency is most completely realized-where both society and the government are most democratic-the United States-the feeling of the majority, to whom any appearance of a more showy or costly style of living than they can hope to rival is disagreeable, operates as a tolerably effectual sumptuary law, and that in many parts of the Union it is really difficult for a person possessing a very large income, to find any mode of spending it, which will not incur popular disapprobation.