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Example sentences for "disapproved"

Lexicographically close words:
disappointments; disappoints; disapprobation; disapproval; disapprove; disapproves; disapproving; disapprovingly; disarm; disarmament
  1. Garrison, Phillips, and William Henry Channing disapproved of the bloomer costume, but Gerrit Smith continued to champion it and his daughter wore it at fashionable receptions in Washington during his term in Congress.

  2. Labor men, however, soon let her know how much they disapproved of her strategy.

  3. The friars appealed to Spain, and the tax was disapproved of; meantime, most of the goods and the vessel itself rotted pending the solution of the question by the Royal Indian Council.

  4. General, Weyler, disapproved of the transaction, and the stock was sold to the public.

  5. While we do not meet any priests among the purists, some of the princes disapproved of the laxity of their neighbours, and exposed it to Ezra.

  6. But before very long the clergymen in the place showed that they disapproved of the plain way in which he spoke to the people, and they told him they would not allow him to preach in their pulpits again.

  7. He was one who strongly disapproved of open-air preaching, and thought John and Charles were very much in the wrong for not behaving like other clergymen.

  8. By nature as well as by training he seems to have been incapable of understanding the French; he was suspicious of them and he disapproved of Franklin's popularity even as he did of his personality.

  9. As a hostess, she was notorious for her originality and energy, and though some of the county families disapproved of her, she always knew how to secure as many guests as she desired.

  10. She disapproved of her, and her manner said as much.

  11. Neither is this expectation of Abraham disapproved by the Holy Ghost, but accounted good and laudable; it being that by which he gave glory to God.

  12. The cause of my writing, I told you, which you have neither disapproved in whole, nor in part.

  13. Still, a profounder insight soon disapproved the severance of the Spirit of God from God himself, as if He were not altogether spirit.

  14. The financial budget of this Minister was disapproved by the Hessian Estates.

  15. The armistice was disapproved by the American Secretary of War, and, in November, General Scott was ordered to take command and conduct the war on his own plans.

  16. Jackson disapproved of the Bank on the ground that it failed to establish a sound and new form of currency.

  17. Mr. Tilden also disapproved of the secrecy with which the proceedings were shrouded.

  18. Judge Maynard, who saw the President on Friday, and explained the real purposes of the club to him, tells me that on Wednesday morning he was informed by Colonel Youmans that the club was disapproved of by the President.

  19. Mr. Fairchild tells me that on Wednesday evening last he heard of it and went to the President about it, and that he found the President already knew of and disapproved of it, as he then understood it.

  20. Whoever disapproved of such proceedings, or intimated any doubt concerning the popular notions about witchcraft, were called "Sadducees and witch-advocates.

  21. Holding the opinion, which had come down from the beginning, that Increase Mather disapproved of the transaction, he indignantly repudiates the idea of giving him any credit therefor.

  22. What opposition she did make to anything she disapproved of was perhaps more savage than that of most babies; but there the difference ended.

  23. He highly disapproved of this reduction, and wrote many letters to his father to remonstrate against it.

  24. Is there any one then, except you yourself and those men who wished him to become a king, who was unwilling that that deed should be done, or who disapproved of it after it was done?

  25. Suppose the republic had furnished that excellent man with all its treasures and resources, what good man would have disapproved of it?

  26. I am well aware, O Romans, that this decision is disapproved of by you; and reasonably too.

  27. There were always abolitionists who disapproved the practice of assisting fugitives, and others who took no part in it.

  28. The statement that he disapproved of the agreement with Governor Shannon which prevented bloodshed is not in accord with a letter which John Brown wrote to his wife immediately after the event.

  29. I strongly disapproved of the application of penal laws to the religious orders.

  30. Mr Bradlaugh often greatly disapproved of the projects of the Prince, and this after some years had the effect of lessening their intimacy, although it did not lessen their friendship.

  31. At first I did my hair up in a way I had always liked; but had seldom worn, because Hester had disapproved of it.

  32. In all the Flats there were but two people who disapproved of the match they thought an assured thing.

  33. Had it disapproved of the penalty of death for the obdurate heretic, it both could and would have said so.

  34. But Murat, prudent when not heated by the presence of the enemy, and who, with his cavalry, had nothing to do in an assault, disapproved of this resolution.

  35. The Prussian troops were to be cantoned on their own frontiers, and remain neutral during two months, even in the event of this armistice being disapproved of by their own government.

  36. Among the ministers of the emperor, several disapproved it; the greater number preserved silence: one alone was accused of flattery, and that without any ground.

  37. Oudinôt warmly disapproved of this plan, saying that it would separate them from the grand army, which required their assistance.

  38. She again spoke of my turning Quaker, and said it was because I was a Quaker that I disapproved of a great many things that nobody but Quakers could see any harm in.

  39. Northern observers who were friendly to the South or who disapproved of this radical reconstruction saw the danger more clearly than the Southerners themselves, who seemed not to appreciate the full implication of the situation.

  40. I don't know what he said during those few minutes, but when we got back I found my mother smiling placidly, though when I had gone away I was certain that she disapproved of the Warden most thoroughly.

  41. Some of his transactions had been disapproved by the great financiers, but he was still a potent factor in the domain of speculation and a promoter without a peer.

  42. Generals Canby and Thomas were instructed some days ago that Sherman's arrangements with Johnston were disapproved by the President, and they were ordered to disregard it and push the enemy in every direction.

  43. I cared little whether they were approved, modified, or disapproved in toto; only I wanted instructions.

  44. A cabinet meeting was held at eight o'clock in the evening, at which the action of General Sherman was disapproved by the President, by the Secretary of War, by General Grant, and by every member of the cabinet.


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    Other words:
    contraband; denied; despised; disapproved; discarded; dismissed; disowned; excepted; excluded; forsworn; ignored; rejected; renounced; spurned