frowned on

Example Sentences

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The FDA has long frowned on reanalyzing failed study results in search of positive data.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2023

We work in broken systems, where asking for time off is frowned on.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

The family of Sergiu Celibidache, another conductor who frowned on recording, took the opposite position, allowing the release of many albums after his death.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 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

But her father had frowned on such and would call Polly inside their small house.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper