Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: disapprove
IPA transcription: [d,ɪsəpɹ'uv]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: disapprove
    Meaning: consider bad or wrong
  • Synonyms: disapprove, reject
    Meaning: deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
Usage examples
  • "What do you disapprove of, Mr. Rivers?" I asked.
  • "I disapprove altogether of the cottage hospital," she said.
  • The law-suit, therefore, I wholly and absolutely disapprove.
  • While I do not approve of picketing, I disapprove more strongly of the hoodlum methods pursued in suppressing the practice.
  • He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engagement with Marianne, and he feels himself obliged, from his dependent situation, to give into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while.
  • "It's odd," Amory said to Tom one night when they had grown more amicable on the subject, "that the people who violently disapprove of Burne's radicalism are distinctly the Pharisee class--I mean they're the best-educated men in college--the editors of the papers, like yourself and Ferrenby, the younger professors....