Word: disfavorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beautiful woman, currently busying herself breaking the heart of the poet Catullus, Clodia is in disfavor with old guard Romans (such as Cicero) not only because of her love affair with her brother, but because of her practice of taking parties of respectable Roman matrons to gladiators' taverns in the suburbs. Clodia has numerous love affairs, delights in building them up to some dramatic public humiliation of her lovers. Bold, self-righteous, Clodia can stand everything except the obscene verses about her which are now beginning to be scribbled in public places all over the city...
Kereopa was speedily hanged, but soon afterward Te Whiu himself fell into disfavor with the British. Possibly the disagreement arose from Te Whiu's claim that the British had never paid him his reward. Whatever the cause, it ended in the Government's confiscating all his property. Te Whiu died in poverty...
Died. General Constantin Sanatescu, 62, reluctant Premier of Rumania's first, pro-Allied Government after her surrender in August 1944; of cancer; in Bucharest. Co-engineer with King Michael of the coup d'état that overthrew the Fascist puppet-masters, Sanatescu fell into disfavor with the Russians after three months as premier, quit, became inspector general of the Army...
...Corp. for a loan of $4,500,000 to pay off old debts and buy new equipment got a tentative O.K. on the condition that CAB approve his proposed sale. But since then the sale had hung fire. Drinkwater heard that CAB Chairman James M. Landis viewed it with disfavor. Landis, in fact, continued to view it thus, and was the only dissenter to last week's decision...
Hsieh Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My pen and ink shall go with me inside my funeral hearse, so that if I've leisure 'over there' I may soothe myself with verse...