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disapprovingly

/dis-uh-proov/US // ˌdɪs əˈpruv //UK // (ˌdɪsəˈpruːv) //

不赞成地,不悦地,不以为然地,不满地

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dis·ap·proved, dis·ap·prov·ing.

    • : to think wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
    • : to withhold approval from; decline to sanction: The Senate disapproved the nominations.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dis·ap·proved, dis·ap·prov·ing.

    • : to have an unfavorable opinion; express disapproval.

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Examples

  • The initial investors decide whether to take a flier on the SPAC’s sponsor and acquisition plan, with the knowledge that they would be able to get their money back if a majority disapproves of the eventual acquisition target.

  • When people were asked whether they approved of the “recent behavior” of Hawley and other political figures, 68 percent disapproved, while just 24 percent approved.

  • The Ipsos poll, in fact, shows that even Republicans are about evenly split on Hawley’s recent behavior, with 49 percent disapproving and 46 percent approving.

  • Scholars disapproved of her removal of the documents from Iraq, and the government demanded an apology from the paper and the return of the files.

  • My friends and I used to duck behind neighborhood garbage dumpsters to hide behaviors that we knew our parents would disapprove of — smoking cigarettes while drinking from a single shared bottle of cheap beer.

  • I was with Romney at a New Hampshire event when a woman in the crowd said disapprovingly that he had four houses.

  • A pair of elderly English ladies at an adjoining table stared at us disapprovingly.

  • She looked at him disapprovingly, and hoped, with something like irony, that he had enjoyed his walk.

  • A footman disapprovingly ushered him to the midst of an immense drawing-room of most ponderous grandeur, and left him to perish.

  • He came to a pause at last, his eyes bent a trifle disapprovingly on his wife.

  • While waiting for an answer to his request to see Mr. Steele, he gazed disapprovingly around him.

  • "I guess the judge knows how he wants his own hat," returned Hannah, her mouth working disapprovingly.