Crossword clues for disfavor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disfavor \Dis*fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfavored; p. pr. & vb. n. Disfavoring.]
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To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey.
--Swift. To injure the form or looks of. [R.]
--B. Jonson.
Disfavor \Dis*fa"vor\, n. [Pref. dis- + favor: cf. OF. disfaveur, F. d['e]faveur.] [Written also disfavour.]
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Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.
The people that deserved my disfavor.
--Is. x. 6 (1551).Sentiment of disfavor against its ally.
--Gladstone. 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.
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An unkindness; a disobliging act.
He might dispense favors and disfavors.
--Clarendon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of disfavour from=US English) vb. (alternative spelling of disfavour from=US English)
WordNet
n. the state of being out of favor; "he is in disfavor with the king" [syn: disfavour]
an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group [syn: disfavour, dislike, disapproval]
v. put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me" [syn: disadvantage, disfavour] [ant: advantage]
Usage examples of "disfavor".
Her pope tells her that it is the result of the continuing disfavor of Heaven, but I cannot believe it.
You refuse to risk your position, and because I am in disfavor you are free to abuse your trust.
And so the superstition fed upon the results, since a house weakened would suffer setbacks, and so seem to be in the disfavor of the gods.
I had acted very badly to General Or-tis and was in disfavor, beside being under suspicion in another matter.
Ever since that day the young maid had been in disfavor with Lotus, and although the girl waited on her silently and slavishly, and stood by her side all day filling her pipe and fetching this and that, and rising in the night at her complaint that she was sleepless and rubbing her legs and her body to soothe her, still Lotus was not satisfied.
Had he not fallen into disfavor, been court-martialed, and condemned to being a regimental whore, he would probably have run the place and it would have had no chance of defeat.
And his news was from some council to which the Roman, in disfavor for letting Drax get away in the escape Helvis had devised, had not been invited.
Some foreign companies may have little or no trade with the United States, and in those cases the lure of smuggling with Iraq would greatly outweigh any potential risk of creating disfavor with the United States.
Just now partyism is falling into disfavor, for there are too many serious questions to be fought out.
He scurried forward, more desirous of avoiding her immediate wrath than courting disfavor of an absent authority.
How the sole Weyr had fallen into disfavor and contempt, how Jora had deteriorated and lost control over her queen, Nemorth, so that, as the Red Star neared, there was no sudden increase in the size of clutches.
When Catherine Howard perished on the block, the duke, her uncle, who had brought about the ill-starred match, fell into disfavor with the vindictive monarch, and never regained the place he had hitherto held in Henry's regard.
It's a little tacked-on office, with cheap walls of wooden paneling and an old wooden door, but it was more than anyone else in the disfavored department had.
It’s a little tacked-on office, with cheap walls of wooden paneling and an old wooden door, but it was more than anyone else in the disfavored department had.
A somewhat seedy looking boy, perhaps a disfavored son from one of the lesser Houses, engaged a cobbler in conversation while a confederate opened his voluminous mantle to slip an expensive pair of snakeskin boots inside.