Example sentences for: disapproved

How can you use “disapproved” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 4) 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.

  • L 1 in the literal sense; without metaphor or exaggeration 2 with exact equivalence; verbatim < follow the instructions ˜ > 3 — used to intensify a metaphorical or hyperbolic expression < she was ˜ — tearing her hair out >; disapproved of by some speakers

  • Close aides disapproved, feeling Stevenson had gone too far.

  • 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.


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