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:
But conservatives seem to have largely disapproved of the company he kept.
2) Clinton's job rating fell from 60 to 55 points in a Washington Post poll, apparently because pollees disapproved of his use of the White House for fund raising.
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.
Having more than one wife was all right: Gentiles (nonMormons) just disapproved of having them all at the same time!
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.