frowned on
Example Sentences
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Amish quilters preferred simple, geometric patterns and colors; the community frowned on overly pictorial motifs and multicolored patterns.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023
As a classicist, he frowned on rock and roll as an "expression of base passions" and once called popular music a "cult of banality".
From Reuters • Dec. 28, 2022
Courts have frowned on sharing nonpublic data among competitors.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2022
In its Rwanda travel advisory, the UK government says homosexuality is not illegal in the country but "remains frowned on by many".
From BBC • May 20, 2022
A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
