She tried to sound disapproving.

Don't sound so disapproving - this is their pay!

He tried to sound disapproving, stern, but it was hard when she made him feel so damned light inside.

She sounded faintly disapproving, as if Vio had lost style-points by this redundancy.

Simeon sounded quite disapproving, and for a moment Nancia thought he shared her shock at her passengers' plans.

"No," the commander, grinning back, managed to sound prim and disapproving anyway.

Allen's father sounded distant and disapproving, and he passed onto his son the image of a man as someone who never felt pain or fear.

He sounded both skeptical and disapproving.

She sounded equally disapproving of Nynaeve and the fellow with the wart.

Harry hadn't meant to sound disapproving, but he must have given that impression, for Bartholomew bristled slightly.