Sentence examples for tacit disapproval from inspiring English sources

The phrase "tacit disapproval" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a situation where someone does not openly express their disapproval but implies it through their actions or silence. Example: "Her tacit disapproval was evident when she remained silent during the discussion about the new policy."

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But their jurisdiction was ceremonial and tactical – an attempt to express tacit disapproval of some other Holmes continuations – rather than legal, and Horowitz stresses that they had no right of intervention in the book.

They could not bring themselves to offer an opinion that would seem to contradict Raúl, but their pointed way of saying that they would not attend Pope Francis's Mass in Havana's Revolution Square — nor watch it on TV — was eloquent in its tacit disapproval.

The next morning, the headlin over the account of the occasion in the "Times" maintained that the Columbia hecklers were "bested" by the Mayor, but, as we saw it from the wings, says the writer, if any "besting" was done, it was done by some thousand students whose disapproval - predominantly tacit disapproval - eventually subdued the noisy interruptions.

She said her own family was unaware of the extent to which she suffered the abuse, which she said was complicated by their tacit disapproval of teenage dating.

While that personal reckoning is difficult on its own, some sufferers have also experienced tacit disapproval from others, and even from the medical professionals they go to for help.

We took this as tacit disapproval of our thesis but continued to press on until we finally got the goods: "In a healthy person constipation is usually caused by diet and stress".

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The tacit one-upmanship and approvals and disapprovals are whispered throughout the land.

The logical result of that is "Follow Your Arrow," a song about embracing self-determination in the face of social disapproval — and also offering a tacit endorsement of same-sex relationships — which could be played on "Sesame Street," it's so cheerfully guileless.

His disapproval appears to be in direct conflict with the tacit support that has been given by President Nicolas Sarkozy to the bill, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports from Paris.

There was the complete disapproval of those who saw only its inherent licentiousness, but from others came at least a tacit toleration of the obviously irrepressible urge to dance.

A Chorus of Disapproval.

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