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单词 disapproving
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(dɪsəpruːvɪŋ)
adjective
A disapproving action or expression shows that you do not approve of something or someone.
Janet gave him a disapproving look.
Synonyms: critical, discouraging, frowning, disparaging More Synonyms of disapproving
disapprovingly adverb [ADVERB after verb]
Antonio looked at him disapprovingly.

Examples of 'disapproving' in a sentence
disapproving

The odd disapproving online comment has not become a furore.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He was also insulted in the street by disapproving strangers.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But they were seen by disapproving contemporaries as evidence of a worrying moral decline.
Lucy Moore Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (2006)
(adjective) 
She gave him a disapproving look.
Synonyms
critical
He has apologized for critical remarks he made about the referee.
discouraging
frowning
disparaging
He was alleged to have made disparaging remarks.
censorious
He is too judgmental and censorious for my liking.
reproachful
She gave her a reproachful look.
deprecatory
a hollow, self-deprecatory laugh
condemnatory
He was justified in some of his condemnatory outbursts.
denunciatory
disapprobatory
boot-faced (informal)
Opposites
encouraging
,
approving
,
commendatory
, approbatory

Additional synonyms

in the sense of censorious
Definition
harshly critical
He is too judgmental and censorious for my liking.
Synonyms
critical,
severe,
carping,
disapproving,
scathing,
disparaging,
judgmental,
cavilling,
condemnatory,
fault-finding,
hypercritical,
captious
in the sense of condemnatory
He was justified in some of his condemnatory outbursts.
Synonyms
critical,
accusing,
disapproving,
scathing,
censorious,
accusatory,
proscriptive,
denunciatory,
damnatory,
reprobative
in the sense of deprecatory
a hollow, self-deprecatory laugh
Synonyms
disapproving,
censuring,
reproachful,
condemnatory,
opprobrious

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