disapproved
Meaning
of Disapprove
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"I think you should know that I'm a devout Christian.” I took that to mean that my new servant wholeheartedly disapproved of almost everything I might say or do.
Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.
We even copied the way the Americans walked, though Father Leonard didn't like that bit of admiration. He disapproved of rolling buttocks.
Romans disapproved of Greek sports because the athletes competed nude. That was shocking. On the other hand, people dripping with blood and dying for entertainment was fine. This is strangely similar to the moral standards of today's commercial television and family movies.
I disapproved of the number of men she had traipsing into her bedroom and suggested she should have a turnstile on her bedroom door.
The argumentum ad personam, is strongly disapproved of in the "academic community.” Respectable critique meets its opponent in its best form; critique honors itself when it overwhelms its rival in the full armor of its rationality.