Meaning of disfavour in English:

disfavour

Pronunciation /dɪsˈfeɪvə/

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noun

(US disfavor)

mass noun

1Disapproval or dislike.
‘the headmaster regarded her with disfavour’
- ‘There is nothing new in this: the Monarchy has almost always been regarded with disfavour, so has the ‘Establishment’, especially when times were bad.’
- ‘A decision-maker may have unfairly regarded with disfavour one party's case either consciously or unconsciously.’
- ‘Spam has retained some popularity in various parts of the world, although regarded with disfavour by those who eschew processed foods or have pretensions to gourmet status.’
- ‘From the beginning, the Protestant Reformers looked with disfavor on the contemplative life and on the quality of mystery that they designated ‘otherworldly.’’
- ‘At one stage there was also a rumour that he was in some disfavour with the board because of delays to the construction of Seven's new Martin Place studios in the heart of Sydney.’
- ‘Today every song in the home-burned CDs met with disfavor.’
- ‘His choice not to intervene won him international disfavor.’
- ‘But those singled out for disfavor can be forgiven for suspecting more invidious forces at work.’
- ‘That readership includes employees who learn what stories will meet with the favour or disfavour of management.’
- ‘But contemporary celebrity is plugged into a relentless cycle of favour and disfavour.’
- ‘‘It's an industry that's sensitive to public expressions of favor and disfavor,’ he said.’
- ‘Under normal circumstances, such a situation leads to a regime of favoritism and disfavor.’
- ‘The judge was right to view this submission with disfavour.’
- ‘Unfortunately, this year state budgets face such shortfalls that tax credits are looked upon with disfavor.’
- ‘It has always been viewed with disfavor by our courts.’
- ‘He looks with disfavor on this simplest solution because it imposes a particular geometry on space and also requires some kind of master clock to synchronize the updating of all the cells throughout the grid.’
- ‘We feel disfavor for all ideals that might lead one to feel at home even in this fragile, broken time of transition; as for its ‘realities,’ we do not believe that they will last.’
- ‘It must have been near the end of school for I was already walking barefoot, something that my father, the local country doctor, looked on with disfavor.’
disapproval, disapprobation, lack of favour
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1. 1.1The state of being disliked.
  ‘coal fell into disfavour because steam engines are noisy and polluting’
  ‘Because they are difficult to grow, farro and spelt fell into disfavor as farmers turned to raising the more profitable and high-yielding commercial wheat variety.’
  ‘Human intelligence fell into disfavor during the 90's, even into the 80's.’
  ‘It fell into disfavor when synthetic thyroid became more popular.’
  ‘Conservative policies then seemed to prosper as conservative parties fell into disfavor with voters.’
  ‘In the end, the movement fell into disfavor after World War 1 due to a number of factors.’
  ‘Over time, laws that treated women as the property of their husbands fell into disfavor, and state legislatures eliminated many of the status-based disabilities that married women had formerly endured.’
  ‘He was also secretary to Becket with whom he was exiled when he fell into disfavour with Henry II.’
  ‘Linking social capital between communities and representatives in the state apparatus falls into disfavour.’
  ‘Maximus fell into disfavour and Rome sent the largest army it had ever assembled after Hannibal.’
  ‘Unfortunately, the chair who routinely fails to make the hard decisions on personnel will soon fall into disfavor with his or her dean - and then the entire department may suffer.’
  ‘Why have we seen vaccine development fall into such disfavor?’
  ‘However, by the mid-15th century, shields began to fall into disfavour among the cavalry, already well protected by body armour.’
  ‘About AD 130 he fell into disfavour, although it is disputed whether or not he was exiled.’
  ‘Overall, the motion picture is an effective and intense portrait of the downfall and destruction of a woman who falls into society's disfavor, but it is far from a flawless effort.’
  ‘But eventually the group as a whole fell into some disfavor.’
  ‘Therefore, the use of ampicillin has fallen into disfavor.’
  ‘This theory seems to have fallen into disfavor for two reasons.’
  ‘One food ingredient that has fallen into a little disfavour is transfatty acids.’
  ‘This picture naturally also fell into disfavour.’
  ‘Between 1983 and 1988 some tests that had been used quite widely fell into disfavour.’
  become unpopular, become disliked, get on the wrong side of someone
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verb

(US disfavor)

[with object]

Put at a disadvantage or treat as undesirable.
‘the system favours those who employ less labour and disfavours those who employ more’
- ‘He urged military tribunals, disfavored any civilian participation and even opposed giving defendants a presumption of innocence.’
- ‘In the United States legislation disfavouring the relationship between illegitimate children and their natural parents was quite common well into the twentieth century.’
- ‘Daughters are disfavoured because families have to cough up huge dowries when they wed - which can range from US $100 to a new car, jewellery, apartments or more, depending on a family's social standing.’
- ‘In modern anthropology, fetishism, like animism and totemism, tends to be disfavoured as a universalistic principle.’
- ‘The amendment also mandates that a one man, one woman marriage will be seen as valid in all fifty states, thereby precluding any state from disallowing or disfavoring traditional marriage.’
- ‘Prior restraints on pure speech are highly disfavored and presumptively unconstitutional.’
- ‘I was talking about a single factor that favours one side and correspondingly disfavours the other.’
- ‘In fact, the strong trend in the country is toward the relaxation of rules disfavoring gay parenting.’
- ‘Just as individuals are favored or disfavored by natural selection, species may also undergo a selection of their own, with some species giving rise to more descendant species, while others go extinct.’
- ‘Latin America, he wrote, was disfavored by geography and climate and weighted down by its history, permeated by a ‘heavy, melancholy force.’’
- ‘To do so, the Court held, would be an example of ‘viewpoint discrimination,’ which is specifically disfavored under the Free Speech Clause.’
- ‘The critical role of certain building block fragments in the folding of their corresponding proteins suggests that mutations in these regions will be disfavored.’
- ‘Among other steps, they informed colleges that cutting men's sports is disfavored and reminded them they have choices for compliance.’
- ‘As a result, this topology is hydrophobically disfavored.’
- ‘Collateral agreements are generally disfavored because of the resources and difficulty required to monitor them.’
- ‘The empirically observed mutations are thus neither favored nor disfavored by natural selection.’
- ‘I disfavored her being on the trip too even though she had the same reason I did.’
- ‘The merit of our justice system is not how it treats ‘us,’ but how it treats the hapless alien or those disfavored and accused of the worst of crimes.’
- ‘Under this approach, a court does not start with any presumption favoring, or disfavoring, the status quo.’
- ‘They could disfavour cases raising issues that had been settled in prior views or that were not of general significance.’