How to Use disfavor in a Sentence

disfavor

1 of 2 noun
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  • They looked with disfavor upon her.
  • He regarded their proposal with disfavor.
  • The church now disavows the theories of the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, which led to the ban.
    — Brady McCombs, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Some parts of the surveys suggest the ramped-up disfavor is due to a growing liberal alienation from the court after the Trump years.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Those ideas seem to be falling into disfavor with many.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Winning unanimous disfavor, however, was the petite size of the six shrimp on the plate.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The church has disavowed that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or that Black people are descended from the biblical Cain.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Their work influenced judges who have looked on the theory with disfavor.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Rather than fixing hearing loss or seeing deafness as a sign of God’s disfavor, the faith of deaf and hard-of-hearing Christians brings new understandings about God to the world.
    — Jana Bennett, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Now West Virginia is leading a movement by fossil-fuel states to return the disfavor.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Deductible losses thus can help to cushion modest market blows, while the taxable gains that might result from knee-jerk selling can work to your disfavor.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The timing of the federal investigation and voters' disfavor with Madigan served as a launch to campaign season for forces on both sides of the amendment.
    — Jamie Munks, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Always popular among his constituents — his rifts with his party seemed to strengthen him at home — Flake survived his disfavor.
    — Mike Sager, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2012
  • An outraged Jean repeatedly raises a stink to their lord about the fact that his former friend is getting all the things that were once rightfully his, which of course puts him in further disfavor with the sniveling Pierre.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The idea of trying to throttle hurricanes fell into public disfavor.
    — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The United States Supreme Court generally looks with disfavor on relying only on race to craft voting districts.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • Sessions, the former U.S. attorney under Trump who fell into disfavor with the president and resigned, is shown standing in front of a church that appears to have been boarded up and is now being reopened.
    — al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Should the Aperol spritz slump into disfavor, its former drinkers may instead return to their old habits of harder spirits-and-mixers, wine, or beer, blunting the momentum of a small but lively corner of the drinks world.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartzy, 30 Oct. 2019
  • For any book critic (including this one) who also writes books, and is therefore loath to curry disfavor with perhaps the world’s most powerful book critic, panning Pamela Paul would be quite the unwise career move.
    — Meredith Maran, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2017
  • Social media companies are dragging down the public’s esteem of tech in general, with the spread of misinformation and the erosion of privacy among the top reasons for the disfavor.
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Another such problem was that certain elites, having attracted the crown’s disfavor, took refuge against peremptory seizure.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Caucuses are now generally in disfavor, with many states moving to primaries.
    — Steffen W. Schmidt, The Conversation, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Unlike many states, Wisconsin prudently looks with disfavor on absentee and mail-in voting.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The relative popularity or public disfavor of Trump could bleed into the Senate election.
    — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • Most films that are widely reviled upon release simply evaporate into their own disfavor.
    — Sarah Churchwell, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Residents boo at council meetings when discussions break down, and complain that the town is being forced to foot escalating legal bills when council members go to court to settle scores with each other and oust those who fall into disfavor.
    — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 27 July 2017
  • That is part of the macabre appeal of the tontine, a 350-year-old investment vehicle that fell into disfavor more than a century ago but is now getting fresh consideration as a way to help people receive steady income in retirement.
    — Tom Verde, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Business leaders then looked gloomily at the prospects of the contentious election, with some openly expressing disfavor for the billionaire Republican candidate.
    — Melissa Mittelman, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
  • That’s one of the great myths of digital transformation that is doing a disfavor to many executives and managers, leading them astray, pouring money and time into digitization projects that fail to move things forward as hoped.
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Nine of them concurred that those suing were likely to prevail on their argument the ban disfavors Muslims, violating religious protections in the U.S. Constitution.
    — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
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disfavor

2 of 2 verb
  • The current laws favor large businesses and disfavor smaller businesses.
  • And how a lot of their alignment has to do with the awareness that the criminal justice system tends to disfavor black people.
    — Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 21 June 2017
  • By contrast, many of those fleeing Russia for the U.S. have used the same difficult and at times treacherous route that disfavored refugees from all over the world use.
    — Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • This warm, hugely moving film remains a favorite among those who disfavor the frostier tone of what followed.
    — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Nor could Kyiv orient its foreign and economic relations toward the West in ways that disfavored Moscow.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • All public-health bodies outside of Taiwan and Hong Kong seemed to disfavor travel restrictions.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 May 2021
  • The new rules also limit how districts can be split and say lines can’t favor or disfavor either political party.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The basic premise is that those who provide important services to the public at large cannot harm the public or unreasonably disfavor certain customers.
    — Charles M. Miller, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
  • In the case of tort law—and specifically liability—treating AIs and humans differently leads us to disfavor the AI.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2021
  • California and New York were the states most disfavored by conservative students.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The state violated the First Amendment, the challengers argue, by disfavoring some citizens on the basis of their political views.
    — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The election cycles of Western democracies, in contrast, tend to disfavor long-term strategic planning on foreign policy goals.
    — Margarita Jaitner, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Families can pass on genes and cultural norms which would favor or disfavor certain behaviors.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2011
  • These are all variables that could favor or disfavor the brown stick insects, depending on the environmental conditions.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The new regulations free schools to do some things that previously were prohibited or understood to be disfavored.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 16 May 2020
  • Such drawbacks tended to put off all but those whom circumstances had already disfavored: second sons, members of the down-at-heel Anglo-Irish gentry, dispossessed Scottish landowners who had backed the losing side in a rebellion against the crown.
    — Christopher De Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
  • The political head winds that normally disfavor the president’s party in midterms were heightened by record inflation.
    — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • President Trump said his ban was need to keep the country safe from potential terrorist threats, but some lower courts have ruled the president used the ban to disfavor Muslims in a way that was likely unconstitutional.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • The biggest question is how the Legislature will view the Fair Districts amendments passed by voters in 2010, which ban the redrawing of maps to favor or disfavor a political party, incumbent or racial or ethnic group.
    — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • But lower-court judges declined to rule against the government on the issue of willful discrimination against minorities, which requires proof that Ross intended to disfavor people of color on the basis of race.
    — Cristian Farias, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
  • The most recent are the Fair District Amendments passed by voters in 2010, which prohibit drawing lines to favor or disfavor political parties, incumbents or ethnic groups.
    — Steven Lemongello, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • German political culture disfavors strident attacks, but Schulz, Kundnani said, failed to mark out sufficient distance from Merkel, who is known for taking over issues dear to her opponents.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The plaintiff also argued that Harvard placed students on its search list and sent recruitment letters to applicants based on criteria that disfavored Asian-American applicants.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • China’s year-to-date imports are already running almost a quarter below the pace set in 2021 due to record domestic production, and price controls that disfavor its main suppliers in Indonesia, Russia and Mongolia.
    — Bloomberg.com, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Under the original Graham-Cassidy bill, the formula for the block grants was seen by some as disfavoring states that already expanded Medicaid coverage under Obamacare.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The consideration of personal qualities also disfavored Jews, who were thought to be academic grinds who lacked character.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Countries can have incentives both to overcount (in regions vying to demonstrate increased need for aid, say) and undercount their populations (perhaps to disfavor a disliked minority group).
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Today our challenges are global, but the manner in which NEPA is commonly interpreted and applied can favor the status quo and disfavor developing land for renewable energy projects.
    — Suraj Patel, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Judge Chuang wrote that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed at trial in arguing that the order violated the First Amendment’s prohibition on the government favoring or disfavoring any religion.
    — Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The state Supreme Court ruled January 22 that the current map is excessively partisan, amounting to a gerrymander intended to permanently disfavor Democrats.
    — Pete Williams, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2018

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