Margaret's extraordinary frankness had started him, he supposed, on a similar strain; but he wished that he had kept back all that sentimental nonsense about what his mother called disapprovingly, his "frame of mind." ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)
When I was finished, a scientist in the audience jumped to his feet, shook his head disapprovingly, and exclaimed "You sound like an ex-Catholic who has lost the faith!" ❋ Robert J. Cabin (2011)
I knew a little about him from Gibbon, who writes of him rather disapprovingly in Chapter V of Decline and Fall, though is more positive about him in Chapter VI when he goes to kill the Scots. ❋ 50books_poc (2010)
The last encounter I had, where I twittered with the electricity of love, ended disapprovingly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Put on our dunce caps and disapprovingly stare out from our hipster shades while uttering phrases like "regression to the mean" (translation: he'll come back down to earth) or "small sample size theater" (stat-geek parlance for blind dumb luck) in our best Bernie Bummer voices? ❋ Chi Tung (2012)
Others responded disapprovingly, as in "How's that hope and change working out for you?" ❋ Philip Ruckerand Anne E. Kornblut (2010)
"Extranjeros," (foreigners) said Luz, shaking her chandelier earrings, disapprovingly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On the other side of the kitchen, Maria wrinkled her nose disapprovingly. ❋ Todd Strasser (2011)
He glared disapprovingly at the cigarette I was smoking. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The New England Journal of Medicine this was not: Medical Hypotheses proudly eschewed peer review, a process it said disapprovingly “can oblige authors to distort their true views to satisfy referees.” ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)
Carter will walk his would-be apostles through holy texts, but he also will coax them to absorb his worldview, an outlook that values human rights and good works, just as it gazes disapprovingly at so much of what is around him. ❋ Manuel Roig-Franzia (2010)
It's true that Huckbee was asked specifically about Portman, but that doesn't change the fact he cited her, disapprovingly, as a cause of the glamorizing of single mother-hood. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The German family who was also riding in the bus clucked their tongues disapprovingly and commented on our piloto's poor driving skills loudly and brutally, not realizing my companion understood everything they were saying and shared their opinion. ❋ Oneika Raymond (2011)
She clucked her tongue at Zane and shook her head disapprovingly. ❋ Jill Myles (2011)
They shook their heads disapprovingly and muttered: "A man like that oughtn't to drink." ❋ Unknown (2010)
When he turned around, Jesse was standing there, frowning disapprovingly. ❋ Julia London (2011)
And every time Mr. Guzman examines it before he rolls it up—by the time we send it away the rug typically resembles a Pollack—he shakes his head disapprovingly and asks whether the time hasn't come to buy a new one. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)
The Hours (which had been Woolf's initial title for Mrs Dalloway), to the surprise of its author, agent and editor, somehow escaped what had seemed so clearly to be its destiny – to be read (probably disapprovingly) by a handful of Woolf fans and then march, with whatever dignity it could muster, straight to the remainders table. ❋ Unknown (2011)
