disapprove
verb (used with object)
to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
have disapproved
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present perfectof disapprove.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The King warned, in a message recorded at Balmoral earlier this month, that his mother would have disapproved of the current state of the world.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
But if such remarks wouldn’t have been the Grant way, he wouldn’t have disapproved.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
“They have used coercion to pressure a number of countries whose behavior they have disapproved of,” Yellen said.
From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2022
President Monroe and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams may have disapproved of Jackson’s methods, but they welcomed the result and used it to pressure Spain for its thinly settled colony.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It will not be accepted as an excuse that they may have disapproved in silence.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
