disapprovingly

Example Sentences

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High in the stands, German leader Adolf Hitler watched on disapprovingly.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2024

Szasz transferred Williams’s setting of New Orleans to what Nelson Pressley in The Washington Post described disapprovingly as “a flavorless gray anyplace.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

The world was suddenly one big party at which everyone responsible talked disapprovingly about “Ozempic face” in judgment and horror at the idea of women taking these new “diet drugs.”

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2023

Our nation was founded by puritans, so as soon as people had a laugh over Santos, inevitably someone would shake their finger disapprovingly.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2023

The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished, and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase, I quickly lowered the wick.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro