frown on/upon something

Examples of frowned

frowned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Several birth control clinics, initially frowned upon as neomalthusian, were opened by the end of the decade.
The professor frowned at the technician of the physician who always seemed to be unhappy.
A customer frowned at the assistant of the pharmacist who was looking for a pen.
Remarriage by divorced or widowed women was not frowned upon.
The immorality of instrumental ethnicity was frowned upon as tending to exacerbate social instability.
Unethical practices on the part of private and public sectors while frowned upon were not openly criticised.
Such sartorial romanticism, verging on circus costume or military display, was frowned upon by the smart set.
The professor frowned at the technicians of the physicist who were wearing glasses.
I used localist representations, as they were not frowned upon at that time.
Excess consumption, if not portrayed for comic purposes, is frowned upon.
As obvious as it may seem, this explication of reasonable doubt has been frequently frowned upon and sometimes explicitly repudiated by appellate courts.
Any violation of the ptnghuà-only rule of speaking may be frowned upon, but it has never been enforced with harsh punitive measures.
Functional programmers love referential transparency - the ability to substitute equals for equals - which is why assignments are frowned upon.
But as here everything is illegal, and frowned upon, well we just take our money and spend it as we please.
In the case of widows, since voluntary remarriage was frowned upon, abduction was one way out of this dilemma.
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