disapprovingly

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• The initial investors decide whether to take a flier on the SPAC’s sponsor and acquisition plan, with the knowledge that they would be able to get their money back if a majority disapproves of the eventual acquisition target.

• When people were asked whether they approved of the “recent behavior” of Hawley and other political figures, 68 percent disapproved, while just 24 percent approved.

• The Ipsos poll, in fact, shows that even Republicans are about evenly split on Hawley’s recent behavior, with 49 percent disapproving and 46 percent approving.

• Scholars disapproved of her removal of the documents from Iraq, and the government demanded an apology from the paper and the return of the files.

• My friends and I used to duck behind neighborhood garbage dumpsters to hide behaviors that we knew our parents would disapprove of — smoking cigarettes while drinking from a single shared bottle of cheap beer.

• I was with Romney at a New Hampshire event when a woman in the crowd said disapprovingly that he had four houses.

• A pair of elderly English ladies at an adjoining table stared at us disapprovingly.

• She looked at him disapprovingly, and hoped, with something like irony, that he had enjoyed his walk.

• A footman disapprovingly ushered him to the midst of an immense drawing-room of most ponderous grandeur, and left him to perish.

• He came to a pause at last, his eyes bent a trifle disapprovingly on his wife.

• While waiting for an answer to his request to see Mr. Steele, he gazed disapprovingly around him.