No work was ever more highly spoken of in private, nor had any literary production ever had less public approbation.

One might think that such public approbation would flatter a chef, but that is not always the case.

Laws they are not therefore which public approbation hath not made so.

In Congress, old-timers speak wistfully of the public approbation that followed Watergate.

I never expect to merit such marks of public approbation.

His overdue moment of wider public approbation begins now.

And indeed, this is one more example of contemporary music's withdrawal from the arena of public approbation.

We can still turn this debacle into a voter-friendly narrative that might bring us public approbation.

It has had a long and bitter struggle with the city to build its new hall, which needs all the public approbation it can get.

But at least it uses the stick of public approbation on its charges.