disfavor
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It was the stick he waved around the world to achieve his foreign policy aims, to show favor and disfavor, to offer or withhold exemptions to courtiers.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026
Once a former U.S. ally, Noriega fell into disfavor after engaging in electoral fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026
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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