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Favoritism   Listen
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Favoritism  n.  The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. "A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States."





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"Favoritism" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make mistakes in the use of strong measures; that firmness is a virtue only when it accompanies the most perfect wisdom. Their course of political conduct, combined with the establishment of a system of favoritism both at home and abroad like that adopted by Henry the Third of France, produced results of the same kind as ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath
... best!' and he looked so mournful that I, knowing he blamed me for his bantling's freak of temper, told him plainly that he cared a thousand times more for this diminutive bundle of hypocrisy than he ever did for me, and that his absurd favoritism was fast begetting in me a positive dislike for her. I couldn't endure the sight of the sulky little mischief-maker for a week after her complaint of barbarity had brought the look into his face I ...
— At Last • Marion Harland
... along the line, stopping at each man to ask his name. He chose Cuthbert and two men, one from each of the principal art schools, as he thought it might look like favoritism if he took all from among his own comrades. The sentries became more and more scattered as he went along, the main body being posted in front of the village. The last few men were warned that he was going forward, ...
— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty
... birth from far and near vied with one another in spending fortunes on this pearl of the kingdom; but Maria regarded all suitors with aversion, and her father was perplexed as to how to get her a husband without seeming to show favoritism. ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... of favoritism. One other offence of which Holmes was guilty he did not attempt to palliate, the taking of the Indians out of their own country without their consent. To the very last Pike had expostulated[547] against such violation of treaty promises; but ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel


Words linked to "Favoritism" :   tendency, fatism, racialism, cronyism, ablism, discrimination, heterosexism, inclination, sexism, able-bodiedism, fattism, social control, racism, racial discrimination, ageism, nepotism, able-bodism, agism, disposition, favouritism


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