express disapprobation
Example Sentences
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This was certainly no time for Madame Goesler to express disapprobation of the practices which were thus divulged.
From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony
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
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
Ruskin was disappointed with his former pupil, and Pater did not hesitate to express disapprobation to private friends; while he accepted incense from a disciple, he distrusted the thurifer.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
It was greeted by the indulgent audience with cries of indignation, peltings of apples, insults, hisses, whatever could most energetically express disapprobation of the lion turned lover.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
