Crossword-Solution: DISFAVOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Disfavor | n. | Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. |
| Disfavor | n. | 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. |
| Disfavor | n. | An unkindness; a disobliging act. |
| Disfavor | v. t. | To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. |
| Disfavor | v. t. | To injure the form or looks of. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “DISFAVOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| In-the-doghouse state | 1 answer |
| Lack of approval | 1 answer |
| Show a bias against | 1 answer |
| The doghouse, so to speak | 1 answer |
| Unkind act | 1 answer |
| What some fall into | 1 answer |
| the state of being out of favor | 1 answer |
| BEING disliked | 2 answers |
| AN INCLINATION TO WITHHOLD APPROVAL FROM SOME PERSON OR GROUP | 11 answers |
| black beast | 19 answers |
| BLACK books | 19 answers |
| unpopularity | 28 answers |
| find fault | 36 answers |
| ill fame | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DISFAVOR (5)
Zerkow had welcomed it with pronounced disfavor, since it had a mouth to be fed and wants to be provided for.
For some moments she said nothing, and to Longueville, turning over several things in his mind, and watching her, it seemed that her glance was one of disfavor.
Minifie's attendants; and in the bow of the vessel sat that wounded gentleman himself, regarding Wycherley and Lady Drogheda with some disfavor; and beside the younger man was Mistress Araminta Vining.
You alone, sir, in spite of the disfavor which I showed for your economical predecessors in too severe a criticism of them,--you alone have judged me justly; and although I cannot accept, at least literally, your first judgment, yet it is to you alone that I appeal from a decision too equivocal to be regarded as final.
Their lives were spared, but to what purpose, since the White Chief looked with disfavor upon them? Let him know that bad men from Michilimackinac put the deed into their hearts.
Quotes with DISFAVOR (3)
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds... this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.
We have no way of knowing, of course, why some are born in health and affluence, while others enter broken bodies or broken homes, or emerge into a realm of war or hunger. So we cannot give definite meaning to our place in the world, or to our neighbor's. But Plato's reflections should give us pause and invite both humility and hope. Humility, because if we chose our lot in life, there is every reason to suspect merit, and not disfavor, is behind disadvantaged birth. A blight…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1979–2024).