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disapprover
noun as in critic
noun as in niggler
Strong matches
noun as in nitpicker
Strong matches
noun as in quibbler
Strong matches
Example Sentences
To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, however, Alexandra was the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was a disapprover; she was an incurable gossip.
He doesn't hold with anything, Cousin Emily; he's a general disapprover.
I'm inclined, anyway, to ignore at least one disapprover, who sighed and shuffled through the performance in a front-and-centre seat, and then – amazingly – cracked open a bag of gummy sweets during the show's most disturbing sequence.
She was to have plenty of that kind of "happiness" in her life, for Mr. Cotton, once her firm ally, pronounced against her the censure of the church, and even one of her sons deserted her in her adversity and took sides with her enemies; her husband appears to have been from the first either a very feeble ally or a silent disapprover of her methods.
There was something about this kindness of her old disapprover which touched her deeply, and moved her to weakness more than had the sight of her recreant love with another girl.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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