frowned on
Example Sentences
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The music that had been frowned on by the bosses in the 70s was now classic rock and he had a loyal fanbase who recognised him as one of their own.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024
The FDA has long frowned on reanalyzing failed study results in search of positive data.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 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
“It’s a little frowned on if someone doesn’t show up,” one member said.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022
Theodore Bernstein, The Careful Writer: “There is nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive... except that eighteenth- and nineteenth- century grammarians, for one reason or another, frowned on it.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
