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- adjective Not
favoured .
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Examples
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The Italian, widely considered the other top candidate for the job, also has a natural contingency among neighboring countries whose needs could go unfavored by a central bank in German hands.
Weber Terence Roth 2010
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The show follows King Silas Benjamin, a modern-day suit-and-tie monarch, his court and his royal family (a distant queen, an intelligent and defiant daughter and the unfavored party prince of a son).
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They may have been reared on a concept of a God who arbitrarily intervenes in human affairs, fiddling with laws of physics or reproductive processes or whatever to effect miracles on behalf of that God's favorite human beings, to the detriment of the unfavored.
Eliot Daley: Welcome, Atheists. But, Really, Why Are You Here? Eliot Daley 2011
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As a house with little seniority and less clout at the show, we had been relegated to the backwaters with other unfavored exhibitors.
Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011
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Such favors direct private investment to the favored businesses and away from the unfavored as market actors chase the artificially higher profits in the favored sector.
Eliminating Oil Subsidies: Two Cheers For President Obama 2011
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And for their less fortunate brothers and sisters, the unfavored laborers, the driven people of the abyss, they cared nothing.
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They may have been reared on a concept of a God who arbitrarily intervenes in human affairs, fiddling with laws of physics or reproductive processes or whatever to effect miracles on behalf of that God's favorite human beings, to the detriment of the unfavored.
Eliot Daley: Welcome, Atheists. But, Really, Why Are You Here? Eliot Daley 2011
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As a house with little seniority and less clout at the show, we had been relegated to the backwaters with other unfavored exhibitors.
Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America Peter Ginna 2011
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In families where favorite children grow up playing by the same rules as everyone else, it is less likely that unfavored siblings feel animosity towards the favorite.
Dr. Ellen Libby: Mom and Dad: How to Solve the Favoritism Problem Once and For All 2010
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In families where favorite children grow up playing by the same rules as everyone else, it is less likely that unfavored siblings feel animosity towards the favorite.
Dr. Ellen Libby: Mom and Dad: How to Solve the Favoritism Problem Once and For All 2010
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