Explore Disfavored through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Disfavored meaning
simple past and past participle of disfavor
Using Disfavored
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of disfavor
- In the example corpus, disfavored often appears in combinations such as: disfavored by, was disfavored.
Context around Disfavored
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disfavored
- In this selection, "disfavored" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, suppress, policy, news, regulations and due stand out and add context to how "disfavored" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a policy disfavored by the and island were disfavored due to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disfavored" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disfavored
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Nearby candidates including Palmyra Island were disfavored due to the lack of adequate landing sites. (15 words)
Religious observance was disfavored, but often tolerated so long as believers didn’t attack the CCP. (16 words)
To leverage the faith of three council members against a policy disfavored by the mayor and some council members is an act of anti-Muslim bias. (26 words)
People deemed unfit to reproduce often included people with mental or physical disabilities, people who scored in the low ranges of different IQ tests, criminals and deviants, and members of disfavored minority groups. (33 words)
A dozen House Republicans on Saturday doubled down on GOP demands for answers over funding for a foreign media monitoring group that provides “dynamic blacklists” used to suppress disfavored news outlets. (31 words)
By the early 19th century, the Statutes of Labourers was repealed as increasingly capitalistic England embraced laissez-faire policies which disfavored regulations of wages (whether upper or lower limits). (29 words)
Example sentences (7)
A dozen House Republicans on Saturday doubled down on GOP demands for answers over funding for a foreign media monitoring group that provides “dynamic blacklists” used to suppress disfavored news outlets.
To leverage the faith of three council members against a policy disfavored by the mayor and some council members is an act of anti-Muslim bias.
Religious observance was disfavored, but often tolerated so long as believers didn’t attack the CCP.
By the early 19th century, the Statutes of Labourers was repealed as increasingly capitalistic England embraced laissez-faire policies which disfavored regulations of wages (whether upper or lower limits).
Nearby candidates including Palmyra Island were disfavored due to the lack of adequate landing sites.
People deemed unfit to reproduce often included people with mental or physical disabilities, people who scored in the low ranges of different IQ tests, criminals and deviants, and members of disfavored minority groups.
The WHO calls alcoholism "a term of long-standing use and variable meaning", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.
Common combinations with disfavored
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- disfavored by 2×
- was disfavored 2×