What (who) is disfavour - definition
disfavour
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disfavour
Note: in AM, use 'disfavor'
If someone or something is in disfavour, people dislike or disapprove of them. If someone or something falls into disfavour, people start to dislike or disapprove of them. (FORMAL)
He was in disfavour with the ruling party...
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disfavour
(US disfavor)
¦ noun disapproval or dislike.
¦ verb regard or treat with disfavour.
Examples of use of disfavour
1. This law is a major step towards scrapping of discriminatory and unjust laws that go in disfavour of women.
2. They would gather in mosques and sing Mawlana‘s poems. ‘Disfavour‘ "But in the past 10 or 15 years people‘s economic situation has deteriorated, so they are far from Mawlana." He says the advent of communism in Afghanistan brought poetry into disfavour because it was seen as backward–looking.
3. Part III needs a radical overhaul to modernise and refresh those very policies which found most disfavour in the French and Dutch referendum campaigns.
4. Russia is becoming a giant nucleararmed version of Saudi Arabia: a country so rich and powerful that even its support for terrorism does not bring Western disfavour.
5. But a very high turnout could still "disfavour independence" by creating a larger gap for the Yes campaign to close, pro–independence political analysts admitted.