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Example sentences for: frowned

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First, on Page 1 in the "Work Week" column, the Journal deadpans that humor is both mandated and frowned upon in the workplace: A survey found that of 275 employers, 8 percent discourage humor, 8 percent include it in their mission or values statements, and 4 percent have hired humor consultants to yuck it up.
She picked up the magazine, inspected the cryptogram, frowned, nodded, and left the office.
Japanese men don't help to bring up baby, and nannies are frowned upon, so motherhood can ruin a woman's career.
Some errors are harder to see but just as surely mistaken: “I frowned at the coffee percolator, which —finally began to perk.
Any sign of putting on airs or assertiveness is frowned upon, and one still hears crude jokes like, Quietness is the best noise as Uncle Johnny said when he knocked down his wife, or Dressed to death like Sally Hatch.