disfavor
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Once a former U.S. ally, Noriega fell into disfavor after engaging in electoral fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026
“Hamilton was so in disfavor when he died that he was just in the wilderness,” says Vaill.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
This is not exactly in the show’s disfavor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
That requires service members of all ranks to be apolitical, deferential, obedient, compliant, and silent, whatever the circumstances and without expectation of compensatory favor or disfavor.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2023
Since Toynbee’s attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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