approval(GOOD OPINION)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disapproving & criticizing
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animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
boo
disapprobation
knock
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
pile
slam
there you goidiom
union-basher

disapproval | American Dictionary

disapproval
noun[ U ]
us/ˌdɪs·əˈpru·vəl/
the expression or feeling that something done or said is wrong:
The boy sensed his mother’s disapproval.
He decided to marry her, to the great disapproval of his father.

Examples of disapproval

disapproval
The main reasons for disapproval were anxieties about patient safety and risk.
My claim is that judicial imposition of legal sanction at least expresses official disapproval of the defendant's conduct.
Today, as moral disapproval of industrial child labour has gained ground, large enterprises who mind their own and their trademarks' images avoid using child labour.
Whether marking approval or disapproval, stance is highlighted in the frequent co-occurrence of pay with get-passives.
There is also the following: to "reflect moral disapproval of people appearing in the nude among strangers in public places"; id. at 2461. 48.
For example, expressing "approval/disapproval of the content, arguments, and so on" (p. 77) is one of the 11 evaluating activities they noted.
The couple had married 57 years ago whilst they were both training to be teachers, to their families' disapproval.
On the one hand, protests were very much in the nature of spontaneous, individual, isolated acts: expressions of disapproval rather than organised movements for change.
The broader concept of societal disapproval may be more important than punishment by parents.
Sometimes we may even find ourselves less certain of our original firm disapproval!
Persons might express their disapproval of certain activities or states of affairs even if they cause no harm to anybody who has interests.
In this way, we become conscious of our own sentiments, and of other people's approval and disapproval of them.
These objectionable private behaviors were first viewed as moral or characterbased problems, best controlled by social disapproval.
The psychological mechanisms of approval and disapproval tend to induce norms of propriety of sentiment within any group of interacting people.
Presenters rely on jurors' nods, disapprovals, verbal reactions and other gestural cues as guides for tailoring their presentations.
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