liking

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of dislike and hatred
abhorrence
abomination
anathema
animosity
animus
distaste
distaste for someone/something
distastefully
enmity
execrate
misandrist
misandry
misanthrope
misanthropy
misogynist
self-hating
self-hatred
self-loathing
sore point
technophobe

Examples of disfavour

disfavour
This requires that all constraints that disfavour any of the observed variants rank below the cut-off.
All other candidates are disfavoured by at least one constraint ranked above the cut-off, and are therefore excluded from being possible outputs.
Thus, if learning is a search for simplicity, overgeneral grammars are disfavoured, even given only positive evidence.
The most prevalent criticism disfavour government-sponsored lottery is that poorer people tend to spend more on lottery games than their relatively richer counterparts.
This means that a potential feature combination will be disfavoured if the resulting sound cannot be easily distinguished from another sound in the system.
On the other hand, a variable output candidate can only be disfavoured by constraints that rank below the cut-off.
However, if the best candidate is not that well-formed (it is disfavoured by high-ranking constraints), then all other candidates will be even less well-formed.
In comparison, low density neighbourhoods did show some enhancing effects on generalization, but only when in contrast to the disfavoured high density condition (c).
They disfavoured the feature in contexts of sentential n't and not.
Thus, a fusion involving chromosome 19 does not seem to differentially disfavour the individuals that carry it, compared with the others.
Its core insight, that languages disfavour ' gaps ', can be shown to follow as a consequence of feature economy (see below).
In stark contrast, combinations of auxiliary with a verb which is not unaccusative disfavour the late subject, which occurs in only 2 percent of instances.
In several regions, specific party favour or disfavour is asymmetric.
Therefore, more than one unsyllabified consonant in a given domain is disfavoured.
This observation illustrates the force of the constraints that disfavour or exclude dysfunctional feature combinations.
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