Definitions
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- noun The state of being out of
favour . - verb The act of showing lack of
favour orantipathy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
- noun the state of being out of favor
- verb put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moral disfavour is something you're going to have to get used to, we fear, especially if you're going to carry on preaching the condemnation of homosexuality in a culture that now very often, and more so by the day, deems that message as obsolete and objectionable as the condemnation of "miscegenation."
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Moral disfavour is something you're going to have to get used to, we fear, especially if you're going to carry on preaching the condemnation of homosexuality in a culture that now very often, and more so by the day, deems that message as obsolete and objectionable as the condemnation of "miscegenation."
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Yet she saw she was often in some kind of disfavour with her husband, and it made her uneasy.
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If you stick around long enough, you fall into disfavour.
Film of The Deep Blue Sea returns playwright Terence Rattigan to the spotlight
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Except, of course, that we can all think of good writers who are hardly read, or unknown, or fallen into disfavour (and if lucky, rediscovered again at some point).
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Except, of course, that we can all think of good writers who are hardly read, or unknown, or fallen into disfavour (and if lucky, rediscovered again at some point).
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Sir John, who was the former head of the Met Office but is now living in semi-active retirement in Wales, said he is considering taking legal action because he feels that the continued recycling of the misquotation is doing him and his science a huge disfavour.
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Sir John, who was the former head of the Met Office but is now living in semi-active retirement in Wales, said he is considering taking legal action because he feels that the continued recycling of the misquotation is doing him and his science a huge disfavour.
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We know now why Stapleton looked with disfavour upon his sister's suitor -- even when that suitor was so eligible a one as Sir Henry.
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A leader respects the rules and defends them even when the rules may disfavour him/her,
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