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Disfavored

Disfavor \Dis*fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfavored; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    --Swift.

  2. To injure the form or looks of. [R.]
    --B. Jonson.

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disfavored
  1. Not favored alt. (en-past of: disfavor) v

  2. (en-past of: disfavor)

Usage examples of "disfavored".

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.