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favored
[ fey-verd ]
adjective
- regarded or treated with preference or partiality:
Her beauty made her the favored child.
- enjoying special advantages; privileged:
to be born into the favored classes.
- of specified appearance (usually used in combination):
ill-favored.
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Other Words From
- favored·ly adverb
- favored·ness noun
- non·favored adjective
- un·favored adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
There, many minority parents supported Tom Torklarson, who favored the education reform agenda.
In the absence of ceremonial formalities, Francis favored a business-like manner.
The former believed in the role of the state as a provider, while the latter favored an iron fist approach to governance.
The Keystone project is not an American one, but a global one, financed and favored by major multinational oil interests.
Even as Hispanics favored Democrats this week, some Republicans wooed them ardently and made surprising inroads.
The morning to sleep, the afternoon to business and the evening to enjoyment, seems the usual routine with the favored classes.
The day was hot and the roads dusty, and Lawrence favored the horses all possible, but they made good progress.
The human race, if favored by environment, can easily double itself every twenty-five years.
The tobacconist whom he thus favored was his under-treasurer, Hardham, whom no writer about snuff should omit to notice.
In truth, the art of tobacco using is nowhere more ignored, nowhere more contemptuously neglected than in these 'favored isles.'
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