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disfavor
noun as in dislike; disgrace
Strongest matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said for the court.
Free exercise of religion is “a disfavored right,” he’s carped in the past, and “you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman.”
But many individual investors also have the ability to press the eject button on stocks that they disfavor, all on their own.
“Your report really doesn’t balance the evidence favoring your conclusions with the evidence that disfavors your conclusions; isn’t that fair?” a BP attorney asked Cook in a deposition.
In the movie, the editor of a literary magazine is forced to grovel for publishing a suddenly disfavored play.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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