DISAPPROVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disapproving mean? 

• DISAPPROVING (adjective)
  The adjective DISAPPROVING has 1 sense:

1. expressing or manifesting disapproval

  Familiarity information: DISAPPROVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAPPROVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressing or manifesting disapproval

Similar:

unfavorable; unfavourable (not encouraging or approving or pleasing)

 Context examples 

I should have said, 'consider what you are doing. You are making a most disgraceful connection, and such a one as your family are unanimous in disapproving.'

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"What shall we do with that girl? She never will behave like a young lady," sighed Meg, as she watched the race with a disapproving face.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Yates's family and connexions were sufficiently known to him to render his introduction as the particular friend, another of the hundred particular friends of his son, exceedingly unwelcome; and it needed all the felicity of being again at home, and all the forbearance it could supply, to save Sir Thomas from anger on finding himself thus bewildered in his own house, making part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense, and forced in so untoward a moment to admit the acquaintance of a young man whom he felt sure of disapproving, and whose easy indifference and volubility in the course of the first five minutes seemed to mark him the most at home of the two.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind and whenever this happened the red, white and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut in a disapproving way.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)