reprobation

• These tidings produced in some quarters much reprobation, and nowhere more, I think, than on the part of certain persons who had never read a word of him, or assuredly had never spent a shilling on him, and who hung for hours over the other attractions of the newspaper that announced his abasement. —  Embarrassments
• For that he incurred official reprobation, and was given the choice of quitting temperance work or the Company The railway magnates claimed entire control over all his time whether on duty or off duty, demanding in their tautological language, 'The whole and entire time' of their men, and bluffly adding that 'they are going to have it.' —  The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier
• Thus we may trace a constant tendency--in too many cases it has been a successful one--to empty words employed in the condemnation of evil, of the depth and earnestness of the moral reprobation which they once conveyed. —  English Past and Present
• Indeed, its well-known moral and aesthetic value, as well as the reprobation that is visited on any shortcomings in this respect, signify, for the purposes of the present argument, nothing more than that the patriotic animus meets the unqualified approval of men because they are, all and several, infected with it. —  An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
• I'm to keep him along, I'm to be still more diplomatic than even he can be Mrs. Rooth listened to her daughter with an air of assumed reprobation which melted, before the girl had done, into a diverted, complacent smile--the gratification of finding herself the proprietress of so much wit and irony and grace. —  The Tragic Muse

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