All disfavored synonyms

verb disfavored

• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
• hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• vilify — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
• disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
• smear — to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something: to smear butter on bread.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• defame — If someone defames another person or thing, they say bad and untrue things about them.
• slander — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
• degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
• disprove — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• segregate — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
• single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
• sully — to soil, stain, or tarnish.
• defile — To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
• debase — To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
• tarnish — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
• stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
• disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
• discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
• besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
• humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
• despise — If you despise something or someone, you dislike them and have a very low opinion of them.
• regret — to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• resent — to send again.
• scorn — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
• detest — If you detest someone or something, you dislike them very much.
• shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
• abhor — If you abhor something, you hate it very much, especially for moral reasons.
• loathe — to feel disgust or intense aversion for; abhor: I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
• decry — If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
• deplore — If you say that you deplore something, you think it is very wrong or immoral.
• nix — nothing.
• spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.