disfavored

Example Sentences

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District Judge Randolph Moss issued an injunction, stating the president cannot use governmental power to retaliate against disfavored expression.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

While Plyler did not formally alter the tiers of judicial scrutiny, it deepened the court’s engagement with this more searching form of rational basis review—particularly when evaluating laws that burdened disfavored or politically powerless groups.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2025

But even this ambivalence could deter protest activity or indeed any politically disfavored speech.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

Her work, old and new, was disfavored for decades, regarded, if it was regarded at all, as kitsch.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson