Disfavor \Dis*fa"vor\, n. [Pref. dis- + favor: cf. OF. disfaveur, F. d['e]faveur.] [Written also {disfavour}.] 1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.
The people that deserved my disfavor. --Is. x. 6 (1551).
Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. --Gladstone.
2. 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.
3. An unkindness; a disobliging act.
He might dispense favors and disfavors. --Clarendon.
Disfavor \Dis*fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disfavored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disfavoring}.] 1. To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. --Swift.
2. To injure the form or looks of. [R.] --B. Jonson.
Such formalist experimentation eventually fell into disfavor, and in 1934 the Soviet art avant-garde was condemned at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers for running counter to revolutionary and proletarian goals.
A corporation exhibiting little concern for the rest of society or for its own future risks the disfavor of our citizens.
Ruml, one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent journalists, fell into disfavor after the Soviet-led invasion of August 1968 that crushed the liberVaculik, who made sarcastic comments about the Communist establishment.
Many bond funds, especially those that invest in so-called "junk" bonds, could fall into disfavor in a slump that caused increased defaults by businesses.
He was named in 1985 as successor to Khomeini, now 88 and ailing, but had fallen into disfavor for his liberal views and growing alignment with former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan.
When the winds of glasnost began to blow, the Soviet film maker Alexander Askoldov took courage and tried to emerge from two decades of official disfavor.
A memorable portrait was Shultz standing alone in a moonlit courtyard in East Jerusalem, waiting in vain for a dozen Palestinians who dared not risk the disfavor of the Palestine Liberation Organization by accepting his invitiation.
Rather, the brunt of the slowdown will be felt in the fast-growing private and semi-private "township" enterprises, which have fallen into disfavor as China's leaders re-emphasize an orthodox Marxist preference for public ownership.
"With such violent groups of thugs we cannot find (the road to) democracy and impose (a new) civilization," said Iliescu, 60, a former Communist Party secretary who was demoted to lesser jobs after falling into disfavor with Ceausescu.
Leveraged buyouts, in which the buyer takes on a large amount of debt to buy a firm, have slowed recently since their most popular tool for raising money, the junk bond, has fallen into disfavor with investors.
"Friday the 13th VII" inevitably found disfavor with the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America, which immediately branded the film with an X for extreme gore.
When Mr. Ozal's wife, Semra, wore a blue dress on the campaign trail recently, pundits said she had done her husband a serious disfavor.