disapprobation
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The report claimed that the controversy was his doing; that he “instigated” the first news stories about the bones to “bring disapprobation on the museum” and “to personally discredit Monge.”
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022
Although we can and should ascribe different levels of responsibility to people based on how senior they were and how involved their work was, none of them should escape the public’s moral disapprobation.
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2020
Appropriation of Hinduism, quantum physics and all else is disapprobation.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2020
Citizens are weighed by their economic activity, with moral disapprobation attached to those who are inactive.
From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2017
“You must know that though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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