Countenance:
noun
the appearance or expression of someone’s face:
Her countenance masked her feelings.verb
to find an activity acceptable; to approve of or give support to something:
This school will not countenance lateness.
Noted in “The quiet director: How Gina Haspel manages the CIA’s volatile relationship with Trump,” Shane Harris, WaPo:
In 2017, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited Fox News pundit Andrew Napolitano’s claim that three intelligence sources had told him the Obama administration used Britain’s electronic eavesdropping agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, to spy on Trump and avoid “American fingerprints.” GCHQ took the extraordinary step of issuing a public statement, saying the claims were “utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”
The British intended to put the White House on notice that they would not countenance such accusations, but Trump has repeated them, most recently in April, a few days after the president’s state visit to Britain was announced.
