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."
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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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."
An Open Letter to the Usual Suspects Hal Duncan 2010
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Yet she saw she was often in some kind of disfavour with her husband, and it made her uneasy.
Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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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 2011
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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).
Measuring success L. Lee Lowe 2009
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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).
Archive 2009-02-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009
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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.
Archive 2010-02-01 EliRabett 2010
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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.
Developing EliRabett 2010
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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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