Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Disapprobation

Nouns
  • disapprobation, disapproval
  • improbation
  • disesteem, disvaluation, displacency
  • odium
  • dislike etc. Dislike. dispraise, discommendation
  • blame, censure, obloquy
  • detraction etc. Detraction
  • disparagement, depreciation
  • denunciation
  • condemnation etc. Condemnation
  • ostracism
  • black list. animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism
  • sardonic grin, sardonic laugh
  • sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo
  • bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment. satire
  • sneer etc. (contempt) Contempt
  • taunt etc. (disrespect) Disrespect
  • cavil, carping, censoriousness
  • hypercriticism etc. (fastidiousness) Fastidiousness. reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach
  • rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming
  • correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, rebuff
  • slap, slap on the face
  • home thrust, hit
  • frown, scowl, black look. diatribe
  • jeremiad, jeremiade
  • tirade, philippic. clamor, outcry, hue and cry
  • hiss, hissing
  • sibilance, sibilation, catcall
  • execration etc. Malediction. chiding, upbraiding etc. v.
  • exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely
  • hard words, cutting words, bitter words. evil-speaking
  • bad language etc. Malediction
  • personality.
Verbs
  • disapprove
  • dislike etc. Dislike
  • lament etc. [Expression of pain.] Lamentation
  • object to, take exception to
  • be scandalized at, think ill of
  • view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes
  • disvalue
  • improbate. frown upon, look grave
  • bend the brows, knit the brows
  • shake the head at, shrug the shoulders
  • turn up the nose etc. (contempt) Contempt
  • look askance, look black upon
  • look with an evil eye
  • make a wry face, make a wry mouth at
  • set one's face against. dispraise, discommend, disparage
  • deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of
  • condemn etc. (find guilty) Condemnation. blame
  • lay blame upon, cast blame upon
  • censure, reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn. remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate. reprehend, chide, admonish
  • berate, betongue
  • bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order
  • take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book
  • read a lesson, read a lecture to
  • rebuke, correct. reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, overhaul
  • give it one, give it one finely
  • gibbet. accuse etc. Accusation
  • impeach, denounce
  • hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration
  • expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize
  • show up, pull up, take up
  • cry 'shame' upon
  • " be outspoken
  • raise a hue and cry against. execrate etc. Malediction
  • exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate
  • abuse, abuse like a pickpocket
  • scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of
  • jaw
  • rail, rail at, rail in good set terms
  • bark at
  • anathematize, call names
  • call by hard names, call by ugly names
  • avile, revile
  • vilify, vilipend
  • bespatter
  • backbite
  • clapperclaw
  • rave against, thunder against, fulminate against
  • load with reproaches. exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against, cry out against, raise one's voice against. decry
  • cry down, run down, frown down
  • clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist
  • draw up a round robin, sign a round robin. animadvert upon, reflect upon
  • glance at
  • cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon
  • insinuate, damn with faint praise
  • hint a fault and hesitate dislike
  • " not to be able to say much for. scoff at, point at
  • twit, taunt etc. (disrespect) Disrespect
  • sneer at etc. (despise) Outline
  • satirize, lampoon
  • defame etc. (detract) Detraction
  • depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up
  • pull to pieces, pick to pieces
  • take exception
  • cavil
  • peck at, nibble at, carp at
  • be censorious etc. adj.
  • pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat
  • make a fuss about. take down, take down a peg, set down
  • snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles
  • throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden
  • have a fling, have a snap at
  • have words with, pluck a crow with
  • give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue. incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt
  • get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. take blame, stand corrected
  • have to answer for.
Adjectives
  • disapproving etc. v.
  • scandalized. disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative
  • defamatory etc. Detraction. satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon
  • censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical
  • fastidious etc. Fastidiousness
  • sparing of praise, grudging praise. disapproved, chid etc. v.
  • in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved
  • unblest
  • at a discount, exploded
  • weighed in the balance and found wanting. blameworthy, reprehensible etc. (guilt) Guilt
  • to blame, worthy of blame
  • answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of
  • bad etc. [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness
  • vicious etc. Vice. unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied.
Adverbs
  • with a wry face
  • reproachfully etc. adj..
Int
  • it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath! [Contr.], forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora! , O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!