How to Use disfavor in a Sentence

disfavor

1 of 2 noun

• They looked with disfavor upon her.
• He regarded their proposal with disfavor.
• Their work influenced judges who have looked on the theory with disfavor.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• The church now disavows the theories of the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, which led to the ban.
  — Brady McCombs, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2017
• Now the scientists fell into deep disfavor.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
• Winning unanimous disfavor, however, was the petite size of the six shrimp on the plate.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The idea of trying to throttle hurricanes fell into public disfavor.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Deductible losses thus can help to cushion modest market blows, while the taxable gains that might result from knee-jerk selling can work to your disfavor.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
• Always popular among his constituents — his rifts with his party seemed to strengthen him at home — Flake survived his disfavor.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2012
• Now West Virginia is leading a movement by fossil-fuel states to return the disfavor.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• Caucuses are now generally in disfavor, with many states moving to primaries.
  — Steffen W. Schmidt, The Conversation, 27 Dec. 2019
• Most films that are widely reviled upon release simply evaporate into their own disfavor.
  — Sarah Churchwell, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• The church has disavowed that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or that Black people are descended from the biblical Cain.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• Another such problem was that certain elites, having attracted the crown’s disfavor, took refuge against peremptory seizure.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Unlike many states, Wisconsin prudently looks with disfavor on absentee and mail-in voting.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
• Given Franklin’s disfavor in London, William could expect no promotion.
  — Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
• The timing of the federal investigation and voters' disfavor with Madigan served as a launch to campaign season for forces on both sides of the amendment.
  — Jamie Munks, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Rather than fixing hearing loss or seeing deafness as a sign of God’s disfavor, the faith of deaf and hard-of-hearing Christians brings new understandings about God to the world.
  — Jana Bennett, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2019
• The United States Supreme Court generally looks with disfavor on relying only on race to craft voting districts.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 May 2017
• Social media companies are dragging down the public’s esteem of tech in general, with the spread of misinformation and the erosion of privacy among the top reasons for the disfavor.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
• An outraged Jean repeatedly raises a stink to their lord about the fact that his former friend is getting all the things that were once rightfully his, which of course puts him in further disfavor with the sniveling Pierre.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2021
• Residents boo at council meetings when discussions break down, and complain that the town is being forced to foot escalating legal bills when council members go to court to settle scores with each other and oust those who fall into disfavor.
  — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 27 July 2017
• Should the Aperol spritz slump into disfavor, its former drinkers may instead return to their old habits of harder spirits-and-mixers, wine, or beer, blunting the momentum of a small but lively corner of the drinks world.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartzy, 30 Oct. 2019
• Business leaders then looked gloomily at the prospects of the contentious election, with some openly expressing disfavor for the billionaire Republican candidate.
  — Melissa Mittelman, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
• Various iterations of that same refrain, a Grecian chorus of disfavor, reverberated throughout my grandparents’ house and in my own childhood home as well.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• Republicans under age 50 disfavor Israel by 57%, compared to 50% last year.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
• For any book critic (including this one) who also writes books, and is therefore loath to curry disfavor with perhaps the world’s most powerful book critic, panning Pamela Paul would be quite the unwise career move.
  — Meredith Maran, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2017
• But the state constitution says the citizens’ redistricting commission can neither favor nor disfavor incumbents.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• That’s one of the great myths of digital transformation that is doing a disfavor to many executives and managers, leading them astray, pouring money and time into digitization projects that fail to move things forward as hoped.
  — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• In 1950, however, with socialists rapidly falling into disfavor, the other parties beat Marcantonio at his own game.
  — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 13 Aug. 2019

disfavor

2 of 2 verb

• The current laws favor large businesses and disfavor smaller businesses.
• No light was emitted of any type, disfavoring the first scenario.
  — Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025
• This warm, hugely moving film remains a favorite among those who disfavor the frostier tone of what followed.
  — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• And how a lot of their alignment has to do with the awareness that the criminal justice system tends to disfavor black people.
  — Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• The new rules also limit how districts can be split and say lines can’t favor or disfavor either political party.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2021
• Families can pass on genes and cultural norms which would favor or disfavor certain behaviors.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2011
• Musero said that evidence in the trial would show that the lists signaled to other agents that he was disfavored and shouldn’t be submitted for work opportunities.
  — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
• The basic premise is that those who provide important services to the public at large cannot harm the public or unreasonably disfavor certain customers.
  — Charles M. Miller, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
• The new regulations free schools to do some things that previously were prohibited or understood to be disfavored.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 16 May 2020
• These are all variables that could favor or disfavor the brown stick insects, depending on the environmental conditions.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
• Research that could be seen as disfavored by one political party may not get done because of the fear it could be terminated with a change in administration.
  — Anil Oza, STAT, 6 Feb. 2026
• Those laws vary widely across the country, and some states disfavor public university employees unionizing.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• The political head winds that normally disfavor the president’s party in midterms were heightened by record inflation.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• California and New York were the states most disfavored by conservative students.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• All public-health bodies outside of Taiwan and Hong Kong seemed to disfavor travel restrictions.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 May 2021
• Nor could Kyiv orient its foreign and economic relations toward the West in ways that disfavored Moscow.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
• The election cycles of Western democracies, in contrast, tend to disfavor long-term strategic planning on foreign policy goals.
  — Margarita Jaitner, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
• Thus, the conjecture disfavors many popular models of cosmic inflation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Aug. 2018
• Most importantly, they were used to disfavor certain groups, particularly Jews.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• That amendment says that no plan can be drawn to favor or disfavor a political party, along with requiring that districts cannot be drawn to deny equal opportunity to racial minorities.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
• Those amendments were designed to stop partisan gerrymandering and require that maps not be drawn to favor or disfavor a political party or incumbent.
  — Dan Daley, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• Those amendments were designed to stop partisan gerrymandering and require that maps not be drawn to favor or disfavor a political party or incumbent.
  — Dan Daley, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
• Biases are tendencies to favor or disfavor anything based on your previous experiences or cultural norms.
  — Charlotte Burgess Auburn, Quartz, 11 Nov. 2022
• No apportionment plan or individual district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
• Districts shall be compact and contiguous, preserve communities of interest and not favor or disfavor incumbents.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• The effort faces an uphill battle, as Florida’s Constitution bars the drawing of districts with the intent to favor or disfavor a party.
  — Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2026
• The consideration of personal qualities also disfavored Jews, who were thought to be academic grinds who lacked character.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• The state violated the First Amendment, the challengers argue, by disfavoring some citizens on the basis of their political views.
  — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2018
• Data indicates these petitions are granted less than 1% of the time and are particularly disfavored in the Second Circuit.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 Sep. 2025