Words similar to disapproved
Example sentences for: disapproved
How can you use “disapproved” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Because dictionary users became accustomed to seeing words and senses of which they disapproved (in formal contexts) bearing the Colloquial label, the word colloquial began to undergo pejoration itself.
Close aides disapproved, feeling Stevenson had gone too far.
Four-fifths of respondents in the Post poll disapproved of the current scrutiny of politicians' adultery.
To be sure, the W usage note, even with its verbosity and the oxymoron “pure hyperbole,” is more helpful than L 's cryptic “disapproved of by some speakers”; but the definitions are better in L because they assume that if a user does not know the meaning of literally , then that of literal is unlikely to be that obvious.
Sexual orientation does not confer taste, the lack of it, or a set of socially approved (or disapproved) styles or--more important--values.
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