The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disapprove \Dis`ap*prove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disapproved; p. pr. & vb. n. Disapproving.] [Pref. dis- + approve: cf. F. d['e]approuver. Cf. Disapprobation.]
To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.
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To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.
Note: This verb is often followed by of; as, to disapprove of an opinion, of such conduct. See Approve.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: disapprove)
WordNet
adj. not approved; "the disapproved tax proposal" [ant: approved]
Usage examples of "disapproved".
In the management of the revenue, he disapproved the simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce.
She strongly disapproved of duelling, but she could not help feeling a little touched, as well as anxious.
Bootle, who disapproved of such unceremonious behaviour, returned a non-committal answer.
He disapproved of gaming, took no more than a fashionable interest in racing, chose his friends from amongst the more sedate of his contemporaries, and was prone to moralize upon such dismal subjects as the decay of modern manners, the frivolity of the younger set, and the lack of modest restraint observable in the damsels at present gracing Society.
Note: Yet Augustine, with laudable inconsistency, disapproved of the forcible demolition of the temples.
Except in the singular institutions of Sparta, the wisest legislators have disapproved an agrarian law as a false and dangerous innovation.
These types, so contrary to the notions of the Arabs, were disapproved by the most influential persons of the time, and the caliph substituted for them, after the year 76 of the Hegira, the Mahometan coins with which we are acquainted.
Yet no consideration could dispense from the law of Constantine: the clergy, the senate, and the people, disapproved the conduct of Romanus.
The final agreement was equally disapproved by the zealots of both parties, by the Roman pontiff and the caliph of Bagdad.
But the foreign clergy was envious, the pope disapproved this national monopoly, and of the six Latin patriarchs of Constantinople, only the first and the last were Venetians.
The powers of heaven were interested in their cause: Bridget of Sweden, a saint and pilgrim, disapproved the return, and foretold the death, of Urban the Fifth: the migration of Gregory the Eleventh was encouraged by St.
On August 6, Major-General Karl Ulrich von Billow,* brother of the ex-chancellor and commander of a cavalry division in the attack on Liege, told a brother officer that he disapproved of “the summary executions of Belgian priests which had taken place on the previous day.
The plan had been in existence and he had known and fundamentally disapproved of it for five years.
It was only after the battle that General de Langle remembered that he had disapproved of Joffre’s order to attack “without allowing me to take soundings first”.
Bismarck had disapproved of adulterating power on land by la maritime adventure that would add an enemy upon the sea.