disfavored

Example Sentences

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Once a person’s life can be destroyed for expressing disfavored ideas, no one’s freedom is secure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

If the true aim is punishment, stigma, or exclusion of a disfavored group, the law is constitutionally suspect—even if it avoids triggering intermediate or strict scrutiny.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2025

But even this ambivalence could deter protest activity or indeed any politically disfavored speech.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

Her work, old and new, was disfavored for decades, regarded, if it was regarded at all, as kitsch.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

A couple of years earlier, I had been invited to Brazil to talk about punishment and the unjust treatment of disfavored people.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson