Word Finder - disapproving

definition

To condemn; to consider wrong or inappropriate; used with of.

example

She disapproves of rap music because of its sometimes aggressive lyrics.

definition

To refuse to approve; reject.

definition

To have or express an unfavorable opinion.

Bianca gave him a disapproving look that quickly melted into a smile.

He answered the staff captain's question by a disapproving shake of his head.

Andre gave him a disapproving look, and Gabriel realized the joke was probably misplaced when talking to the family member of the deceased.

She paused near the end and turned back to see both Officer David and the woman watching her with disapproving looks and crossed arms.

Darian's disapproving gaze mirrored Damian's, and Sofia hid her face against Damian's chest as the three men facing her gave her similar looks.

He was opposed to political Zionism, and the Montreal Conference (1897), at his instigation, passed resolutions disapproving of the attempt to establish a Jewish state, and affirming that the Jewish Messianic hope pointed to a great universal brotherhood.

Disapproving of certain changes in the constitution, he resigned in 1778, but was elected governor in the following year, and served until 1782.

His own college (Christ's) would have chosen him for the mastership; but a party opposition led to the election of Valentine Cary, who had already quarrelled with Ames for disapproving of the surplice and other outward symbols.

Merely walking around the streets with a professional camera prompts disapproving tuts from locals.

He comments dryly, disappointed, disapproving, not sure what the joke was between you and I.

Parents' responses to a child's behavior, whether approving or disapproving, are likely to have a greater effect in a secure, loving environment, because children long for their parents' approval.

At the same time, she's able to put you in your place with one little glance or disapproving shake of her head.

Having been left in the care of his disapproving Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon when he was only an infant, Harry Potter has never been told the truth about his parents and his roots in the magical world.

Her distant and cruel husband, interfering mother-in-law and disapproving mother watch her every move.

Persia indeed for many years showed a strong disposition to reassert the supremacy over Herat which was exercised by the Safawid kings, but great Britain, disapproving of the advance of Persia towards the Indian frontier, steadily resisted the encroachment; and, indeed, after helping the Heratis to beat off the attack of the Persian army in 1838, the British at length compelled the shah in 1857 at the close of his war with them to sign a treaty recognizing the further independence of the place, and pledging Persia against any further interference with the Afghans.

During his residence in Wales a hyper-Calvinistic work entitled A Body of Divinity; or the Sum and Substance of the Christian Religion, was published under his name by John Downham; and, although he repudiated the authorship in a letter to the editor, stating that the manuscript from which it was printed was merely a commonplace-book into which he had transcribed the opinions of Cartwright and other English divines, often disapproving of them and finding them dissonant from his own judgment, yet it has been persistently cited ever since as Usher's genuine work, and as lending his authority to positions which he had long abandoned, if he ever maintained them.