express disapprobation

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To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Roughly speaking, then, only one out of ten could be got to express disapprobation of the free comparison of the results of science with the statements of the canonical books.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

Lord Fitzwilliam, for attending a public meeting to express disapprobation at the means by which the meeting at Peterloo was dispersed, was dismissed from his office as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.

From Three Accounts of Peterloo By Eyewitnesses Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial by Jolliffe, William

Ruskin was disappointed with his former pupil, and Pater did not hesitate to express disapprobation to private friends; while he accepted incense from a disciple, he distrusted the thurifer.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

And the archdeacon raised his huge hands in the manner in which his friends are so accustomed to see him express disapprobation and astonishment.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony