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disapproval

/dɪsəˈpɹuvəl/ noun B2
  1. The act of disapproving; condemnation. (countable, uncountable) · Everyone glared in disapproval at the man talking loudly on the phone.

Plural disapprovals

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Marilla said more than she had intended to say when she began, for she read disapproval in Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 64 · C1
And of all the excited performers-elect none was so excited as Anne Shirley, who threw herself into the undertaking heart and soul, hampered as she was by Marilla’s disapproval.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 183 · C1
Dantès endeavored to renew the subject; the abbé shook his head in token of disapproval, and refused to make any further response.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 173 · C1

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