express disapprobation
Example Sentences
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Not an iota of the whole performance, at that time, but seemed to me to be perfect; and I should have readily quarrelled with the man who should have happened to express disapprobation.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas
This was certainly no time for Madame Goesler to express disapprobation of the practices which were thus divulged.
From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony
He was then hoisted upon the shoulders of some half-dozen patriots, notwithstanding a melancholy howl, by which he intended to express disapprobation of the whole proceeding.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various
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
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
