Disapproved

Examples

• My uncle disapproved it all so entirely when he did arrive, that in my opinion everything had gone quite far enough. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Without any aid--even opposed or disapproved by you--I believe I should have acted precisely as I now intend to act, but in another spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The author's discourse disapproved by his master. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Pleasant with a grave look shook her head; importing that she understood the process, but decidedly disapproved. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But every one around her disapproved. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What, in the name of common law and common sense, would you or could you do if my pleasure led me to a choice you disapproved? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet automatically she stiffened herself away, and disapproved. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her uncle disapproved, but he dared not remonstrate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The redundancy of his alertness was half-vexing, half-ludicrous: in my mind I both disapproved and derided most of this fuss. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But at length she was secured by the exertions of Elinor, who greatly disapproved such continual seclusion. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Typist: Murray