Sanction
Antonyms of SANCTION
- disagreement, discourage, prevent, award, disapproval, disagree, honor, prohibition, frustrate, deter, invalidate, veto, protest, injunction, impede, counteract, expose, taboo, reject, reward, exclusion, opposition, suppression, disapprove, question, deny, hinder, denounce, confound, rejection, dissuade, prevention, oppose, deterrence, disallow, revocation, repression, disconcert, refusal, denial, baffle, obstruct, revoke, refuse, discouragement.
Examples of usage:
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How could I be other than the ordinary acquaintance without your sanction?" "King of the Castle" by George Manville Fenn
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For there can be no rule without sanction therefore. "Fighting France" by Stephane Lauzanne
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On the contrary the Parliament lamented that this object was not pursued with sufficient earnestness; but it wished above all to extend its right of sanction over the whole domain of the public revenues. "A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)" by Leopold von Ranke