The antonyms for the word "disapproved of" are a variety of synonyms that connote endorsement, acceptance, or approval. These various phrases and expressions describe a favorable response, from "commended" and "applauded" to "supported" and "encouraged". These cross the fields of personal feedback, professional response or general reception of the idea under discussion. "Admired," "valued," "endorsed," and "sanctioned" can all represent acceptance of a given idea or action, while "commended" and "lauded" may represent an appreciation for specific actions or accomplishments. Whatever term is used to represent the opposite of "disapproved of," it denotes that the recipient of such sentiment is viewed positively by others.

What are the antonyms for Disapproved of?

• v.

  • deplore
  • approve
  ,
  • be happy
  ,
  • commend
  ,
  • compliment
  ,
  • delight
  ,
  • endorse
  ,
  • laud
  ,
  • praise
  ,
  • rejoice
  ,
  • revel
  .
  • deprecate
  • build up
  ,
  • increase
  ,
  • sanction
  .

Famous quotes with Disapproved of

• A priest visiting my parish preached a sermon wherein he referred to homosexuality as a “lifestyle.” By which he meant a choice. So, too, my beloved Father O’Neill (to whom I confessed as a child) said to my sister, a few months before he died, that he disapproved of “Richard’s lifestyle.” Homosexuality requires cubism to illustrate itself, perhaps. But homosexuality is not a lifestyle. Homosexuality is an emotion—a physiological departure from homeostasis.

  Richard Rodriguez
• Boys today hardly aspire to immortal honor, the honor of self-fulfilling achievement. It is highly disapproved of in the code of the organized system. Instead, they devote themselves to protecting their “personal honor” against insults; and conversely they dream of the transient notoriety which will prove that they are “somebody,” which they doubt. The personal honor that they protect does not include truthfulness, honesty, public usefulness, integrity, independence, or virtues like that. A reputation for these things does not win respect, it has no publicity value; it’s believed to be phony anyway, and if it’s true, the person is hard to get along with.

  Paul Goodman
• The boy was fully occupied with his own cogitations for the remainder of the ride, till we halted before the farmhouse garden gate. I watched to catch his impressions in his countenance. He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry bushes, and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head; his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode. But he had sense to postpone complaining — there might be compensation within.

  Emily Brontë
• The argumentum ad personam, is strongly disapproved of in the “academic community.” Respectable critique meets its opponent in its best form; critique honors itself when it overwhelms its rival in the full armor of its rationality.

  Peter Sloterdijk
• “I think you should know that I’m a devout Christian.” I took that to mean that my new servant wholeheartedly disapproved of almost everything I might say or do.

  George Alec Effinger

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