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- adjective not
approving
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Examples
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(By comparison, in the latest Newsweek poll, Barack Obama is up six points, to 54% approve, with only 40% unapproving.)
Robert J. Elisberg: Welcome Back, George W. Bush! Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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(By comparison, in the latest Newsweek poll, Barack Obama is up six points, to 54 percent approve, with only 40 percent unapproving.)
Robert J. Elisberg: Welcome Back, George W. Bush! Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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(By comparison, in the latest Newsweek poll, Barack Obama is up six points, to 54% approve, with only 40% unapproving.)
Robert J. Elisberg: Welcome Back, George W. Bush! Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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Tim Montgomorie was IDS's right-hand man and is clearly unapproving of both the agenda that Cameron is following and the fact he no longer has the ear of the leadership.
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Miss Mulrooney, a tall thin woman with dark gray hair, looked stern and unapproving.
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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Miss Mulrooney, a tall thin woman with dark gray hair, looked stern and unapproving.
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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"Then I'll need the less excuse for being here," said Nan, trying to find in the hard and unapproving visage any trace of the woman who in happier days used to be so kind a nurse.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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He read the remainder of the paper rigid and unapproving.
The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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"And as they did not _approve of holding God with acknowledgment_, God delivered them over to an unapproving mind, to work those things which are not suitable."
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They suffered, with unapproving acquiescence, solicitations, which they had in no shape desired, to an unjust and usurping power, whom they had never provoked, and whose hostile menaces they did not dread.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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