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All approval antonyms

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noun approval

  • disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
  • disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
  • refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
  • veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
  • denial — A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.
  • ban — To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
  • prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
  • condemnation — Condemnation is the act of saying that something or someone is very bad and unacceptable.
  • dissent — to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
  • rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
  • disfavor — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
  • dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
  • hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
  • disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
  • censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
  • disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
  • criticism — the analysis or evaluation of a work of art, literature, etc
  • blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
  • neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
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