Word: disfavorable
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...many suitors, Riam sat out the dancing parties, refused to eat at dinner. When, after nine years, she was still unmarried, a scurrilous paper serialized her alleged love life. But the truth was that Riam is a devoted elder daughter of a Siamese-Islamic family which looks with disfavor on Westernized dancing and rejects all food prepared by pork-eating non-Moslems. "Time will vindicate me," said Riam...
...desire on the one hand to provide through our schools unity in our national life. On the other we seek the diversity that comes from freedom of action and expression by small groups of citizens. We look with disfavor on any monolithic type of educational structure; we shrink from any idea of regimentation, of uniformity as to the details of the many phases of secondary education. Unity we can achieve if our public schools remain the primary vehicle for the education of our youth, and if as far as possible, all the youth of a community attend the same school...
Gatica, who was already in disfavor with the consulate, got hurry-up orders, and at week's end was back in Argentina. Brión was granted a few weeks' leeway, got an ordinary visitor's visa, and planned to try one more fight before going home...
...prospectors brought in a gusher. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. (renamed Anglo-Iranian in 1935) was founded, has been spouting profits ever since. It built the world's largest refinery at Abadan, became a top-ranking crude-oil producer. It also fell more & more into disfavor with the Iranian government. By last week the company's strained relations with Iran formed a major flaw in the defense of the Middle East against Communism; Britain and the U.S. did not see eye to eye on how to correct the defect...
...beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there we go on to "sharp, intelligent, adroit and clever." And if this were not enough, to "forward in speech and behavior, saucy, cheeky and malapert." After that the S.O.E.D. proclaims that pert "may be used as a vague expression of disfavor." Comes now, "bold," followed by "esp. in a bad sense" and after that "audacious, lively, bright, sprightly, in good spirits, or jolly." . . . . . You comprehend my dilemma? I don't know whether to send you flowers, three additional subscriptions, or call my lawyers...