misfavor

To dislike or disapprove of; to view with displeasure or dislike.

I do not misfavor a general freeze now.

I misfavor the bearin' o' yon micos," MacPherson muttered out of a corner of his mouth as the first Creek leaders strode out over burned brown grass on the square fronting the House of Strangers.

To disadvantage or exhibit bias against.

Disapproval or antipathy; disfavor.

The spoils system may well be the primary explanation for administrative unwillingness to take any action which would curry political misfavor.

Indeed only a handful of citizens opposed the project; and we were the target of much public criticism and misfavor.

A disservice or detriment.

And one of the prices of specialization is the realization by a specialist of how important he may be to some city, because some city I think does him a misfavor sometimes by making him believe that he is a man of consequence more than he maybe really, actually is.

The book is a great misfavor to the mysterious, exciting , and even elegant squid.

Inappropriate approval.

Just now we are passing through a period when many religious people are deliberately repudiating reason as a way to the goodness of God. These radical swings back and forth between misfavor and disfavor of reason are disruptive to the growth of genuine high religion.