The word "disfavour" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used as a noun to mean disapproval or disfavor. For example, "His mother-in-law's opinion was that he should quit his job, but his wife held him in disfavour for even considering it."
A day later he successfully browbeat hardliners who control the state broadcasting monopoly into reversing a sudden decision not to air a scheduled interview with him.A decade ago it was the disfavour of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that condemned Mr Khatami's reformist government to failure.
Israel, he said mildly, was doing itself a disfavour by failing to give hope to the Palestinians.It's the fault of foreignersSuch words will soothe Western governments.
Another of Sultan's sons, Prince Bandar, served for two decades as Saudi ambassador in Washington until he was appointed head of the Saudi National Security Council in 2005 (he now seems to have fallen into disfavour).
In 1996 it sold 25% of Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong's "flag-carrier" airline to CITIC, a Chinese investment firm, and other mainland investors.Jardine's fall into disfavour followed its decision in 1984 to shift its legal domicile to Bermuda, and then, a decade later, to delist its shares from the Hong Kong market.
I and me do not make Mr Liberman's list of Obama's signature words).What words does Mr Obama tend to disfavour, relative to other presidents, in his State of the Union speeches?
Depending on who you are listening to, it is often stretched to mean pretty well anything from outright bans to disfavour, opprobrium and even neglect.In this section The dark beyond A very contemporary Russian Ballet's superstar Hold that tune ReprintsLeonard Bernstein was unofficially blacklisted in America's McCarthy era.
She initially turned down Rezanov's planned "Russian American Company"—a business venture that would run the empire along the lines of the East India Companies run by Britain, France and the Netherlands on the grounds that it would be monopolistic.Years later, long after Rezanov was gone and just as his business plans were finally beginning to flourish, the company fell into disfavour at court.
But it has also produced a ruling class increasingly remote from an increasingly bitter people.The general election due on November 28th looks set, as ever, to favour Egypt's rulers and to disfavour, perhaps more than ever before, the cause of democracy.
Three-quarters of the Bureau of Land Management permit holders run less than 100 head of cattle.For years, these marginal operators have teetered on the brink; banks will look at them with even greater disfavour now they have lost guaranteed forage.
But New Komeito's disfavour has, in some ways, made it harder for Mr Koizumi to back down, since many LDP politicians resent the alliance.
The circumstances have changed in Mr Mugabe's disfavour.
