ill-favor

The scientific and experimental studies which had brought him into ill-favor with his own order, and had excited the suspicion against him of dealing in magic and forbidden arts, seem to have sown the seed of the popular traditions which at once took root around his name.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Even Brask wrote: "He has won the king's ill-favor in many ways, for which he can offer no defence."

The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa Paul Barron Watson

On account of their habits they are regarded with much ill-favor.

Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

The Negroes whom he met viewed him with ill-favor, and the whites who passed looked on him with unconcealed distrust and contempt.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

Don had committed or why he should thus be in ill-favor with the Great Impresario.

Eulogy to Don Marquis by Benjamin DeCasseres 1938

It was a bleak day in November, with a thick, gray sky, and a great, noisy, blustering wind that had a knack of facing you, no matter which way you were going; a wind that would be in ill-favor anywhere, but in northern Alberta, where the wind is not due to blow at all, it was what the really polite people call "impossible."

The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder Nellie L. McClung 1912

They passed on, some being met and embraced by waiting friends; and next came an elderly, sour-looking dame, who regarded me with ill-favor.

The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada William Murray Graydon 1905

For a young woman to dream of sleighing, she will find much opposition to her choice of a lover, and her conduct will cause her much ill-favor.

What's in a Dream: A Scientific and Practical Interpretation of Dreams 1901

I fear even the deft graciousness of the highest art could not have softened the rigid angularities of that youthful figure, its self-complacent vulgarity, its cheap finery, its expressionless ill-favor.

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

Among other indications of the ill-favor with which it was received was a Remonstrance, signed by some of the most distinguished laymen of Paris.

History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868