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Disfavor   /dɪsfˈeɪvər/   Listen
noun
Disfavor  n.  (Written also disfavour)  
1.
Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. "The people that deserved my disfavor." "Sentiment of disfavor against its ally."
2.
The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.
3.
An unkindness; a disobliging act. "He might dispense favors and disfavors."



verb
Disfavor  v. t.  (past & past part. disfavored; pres. part. disfavoring)  
1.
To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. "Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey."
2.
To injure the form or looks of. (R.)






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"Disfavor" Quotes from Famous Books



... observed by embassadors toward independent nations. Genet was stung to the quick; and, three days after the receipt of this letter, he wrote a most angry reply to Jefferson, in which, as we have just noticed, he accused him of playing false to his professions of friendship, and charged the disfavor in which he was held by the government to the machinations of "aristocrats, partisans of monarchy, partisans of England and her constitution and consequently enemies of the principles which all good Frenchmen had ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing

... parlance, the entire company "held the picture." Up-stage, with his hand still on the door, stood the man with the jaw; downstage, Jimmy; center, Spike and the bull-dog, their noses a couple of inches apart, inspected each other with mutual disfavor. On the extreme O. P. side, the bull-terrier, who had fallen foul of a wicker-work table, was crouching with extended tongue and rolling eyes, waiting for ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse

... widow soothingly. "The favor and disfavor of kings are as those of the Gods. Men rejoice in the one or bow ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... idleness was a pleasant relief, but I soon found that it was hard and exhausting labor; the perspiration rolled down my face in streams, and I felt a strong inclination to cease operations. My new master, however, plainly looked with disfavor upon such an intention, for the moment that I slackened in my toil, he would shake his head gravely and motion me to continue, and to work more rapidly, and I had no ...
— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches - An Autobiography • Edwin Eastman

... misgivings entertained by many engineers respecting the future use of cast iron for structures of certain kinds, it is clear that for architectural purposes this material is likely to be employed to an extent hardly contemplated by many who have looked upon it with disfavor. At the present moment many buildings may be seen in London, in which cast iron has been introduced instead of stone for architectural features, and the substitution of cast iron for faades in many warehouses and commercial buildings seems ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various


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