misfavored

English

Alternative forms

• misfavoured

Adjective

misfavored (comparative more misfavored, superlative most misfavored)

1. Unfortunate or unpopular.
   • 1964, Beryl Godfrey, Orientation of Social Workers to the Problems of Deaf, page 66:

     Society is faced with the complex social problems that accompany this increasing incidence of multiple-handicapped children. Indeed, apart from the heart-wrenching aspects of dealing with children so misfavored, the social worker will find it necessary to pioneer and perhaps to develop effective methods for assisting them.

   • 1996, Anne E. Carr, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Religion, Feminism, and the Family, page 256:

     The good home does not recognize anyone as privileged or misfavored; it knows no special favorites and no stepchildren.

   • 2002, Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, page 318:

     Applied to the great people's and citizens' home this would mean the breaking down of all the social and economic barriers that now divide citizens into privileged and misfavored, into rulers and dependents, into rich and poor, the glutted and the destitute, the plunderers and the plundered.

Verb

misfavored

1. simple past and past participle of misfavor