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Definition of Disfavor
Disfavor

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

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.

An unkindness; a disobliging act.

To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.

To injure the form or looks of.

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Disfavor Quotations

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Tacitus

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
Helen Wills Moody

Disfavor Translations

disfavor in Italian is disapprovare


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