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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