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What does frowned upon mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of frown upon
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They also had concerns that modelling their own fashions in the shop window may be frowned upon as them flaunting themselves.
They are based purely on sexual attraction and release, and any strong emotional involvement between those concerned is socially frowned upon.
Passing notes to indicate you like somebody is generally frowned upon once you leave grade school.
But they didn't know what was frowned upon by society, obviously, because they're house was a pigsty.
As a further point to be noted by some haughty officials, in Greece it is very much frowned upon for the local girls to so disrobe on the beach.
Every interruption is rightly frowned upon by tennis aficionados who use ridiculous stage-whispered tut-tuts to make their point.

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