approve(HAVE A GOOD OPINION)
I disapprove of all the violence that is shown on television.
He claims he was forced to leave his job by a group of students who disapproved of his views.
Sex before marriage is strongly disapproved of in some cultures.
He always disapproves of any new ideas suggested by anyone below him in the department.
I didn't suggest that we held the party here, as I knew you would disapprove.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Examples of disapproved

disapproved

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

Typically, the courts and settler society disapproved of such behavior as dangerously provocative.
Both clearly disapproved of the use of physical violence, of verbal offences and of theft.
Even if many contemporary observers disapproved of migrating child workers, the children themselves may have been of another opinion.
Hence, although the hadith folk admired deliberate austerity, they characteristically disapproved of extremes.
Warding off the disapproved and attracting the good by introducing adjustments in legislation and its design.
I have always disapproved of architects trained to consider architecture as a work of small substitution for the province of the city.
In the national sample, 49 per cent approved, 30 per cent disapproved, and 21 per cent were coded don't know/no answer.
It is not enough that the conduct be widely disapproved of or that it infringes traditional taboos.
Eighteen fathers disapproved (twelve unqualified) but eleven wives did not know their husbands' opinions.
But in the modern period, of course, such action came to be officially disapproved of and itself led to prosecutions.
Overall, almost 85% of these women approved of family planning, about 12% expressed no commitment and just over 3% disapproved.
Most respondents (70-1%) reported approval, including 67-4% of males and 72-1% of females; 26-7% of the sample disapproved and 3-7% were uncertain.
Of 21,484 ever-married women, more than three fifths of the respondents disapproved of family limitation, and only a little over one-quarter were in favour of family limitation.
James, however, disapproved of such a dishonourable style of departure and advised his son to have patience.
An active social life was disapproved of.
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