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Recent Examples of disapproval Gabbard remains as unfamiliar to most Americans as Hegseth, though her nomination generates slightly less disapproval. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024 According to Canadian pollster Angus Reid, Trudeau has a disapproval rate of around 68% as of Dec. 24, with a meager 28% of Canadians supporting him. Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025 The film, which director Brady Corbet worked on for seven years, has been hailed by critics and filmmakers from around the world, despite some disapproval over its three-and-a-half-hour runtime. Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025 Like Biden, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson were former vice presidents who also shared much greater disapproval than approval from voters during their waning days in the White House. Matthew A. Winkler Bloomberg Opinion (tns), arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for disapproval 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disapproval
Noun
  • Members of the public brought placards in support of city staff, and some showed their displeasure against council members such as Donald P. Freitas.
    Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2025
  • And some fans who tuned in Saturday expressed their displeasure, taking issue with Swift's past endorsement of Kamala Harris and other Democrats.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Kennedy’s dislike for Carter stemmed from Carter’s refusal to give Kennedy, a party insider, a speaking role at the1976 convention which endorsed Carter, a party outsider, for president.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The track, performed by Glinda and Elphaba, humorously captures the characters' mutual dislike.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Signing the best starter remaining on the free-agent market would allay those concerns and quell some of the criticism surrounding Atlanta's quiet offseason.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The Trump transition team has not yet responded to a request for comment on criticism of Trump’s plan targeting Canada, Mexico and China specifically.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a top aide to President Trump, drew and quickly dismissed a raft of condemnation from Democratic lawmakers, left-wing politicians abroad and others across the internet after twice making what to some looked like a Nazi salute from an inauguration stage.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Faced with racist quotas and restrictive laws, Perkins dared public condemnation—even enduring a congressional crusade for her impeachment—in a desperate effort to save refugees and relocate them to the United States.
    Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These cases involved monumental pieces of wrongdoing, yet the Justice Department and the federal courts allowed the New York chump-change cases against Trump—built on far smaller frauds—to get all the attention—and ultimately—the disapprobation.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • In a 2018 episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld and Mulaney go rug shopping, supposedly at Tendler’s instruction, and Seinfeld’s disapprobation at being sent on an errand by someone’s wife cuts through the segment.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024

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“Disapproval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disapproval. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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