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Meanings of favouritism in English

Portuguese
discriminação
Catalan
discriminació

Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

        discriminação
        Usage of favouritism in English
        1
        The government has often been called out for its favouritism over non-smokers.
        The South African
        2
        The results will be closely watched for any sign of political favouritism.
        Reuters
        3
        Mr Quickie firmed into favouritism before the race ahead of Mystic Journey.
        News.com.au
        4
        May's spokesman dismissed the idea that it showed favouritism towards his candidacy.
        The Guardian
        5
        So You Think is disputing favouritism in some ante-post lists with Sarafina.
        The Irish Times
        6
        Certainly you don't, if you think that there has been any favouritism.
        With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
        7
        His conduct in discountenancing the favouritism of the last years of Louis XV.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
        8
        One of the reasons we are stopping the project is favouritism in hiring.
        The South African
        9
        There is favouritism and incompetency in everything that is being done.
        Indiscreet Letters From Peking / Being the Notes of an Eye-Witne...
        10
        RUGBY:Uneasy sits the mantle of favouritism, or so the theory goes.
        The Irish Times
        11
        In them all he knew was no graft, and no favouritism.
        The Rules of the Game
        12
        So this piece of favouritism costs the city £800 a year.
        The Roman Question
        13
        Money and favouritism, however were not always the motives of these large concessions.
        Wyandotté; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A Tale
        14
        No favouritism can sustain a ministry which has become disgustful to the nation.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
        15
        He hated us all alike, there was no favouritism about him.
        A Dreamer's Tales
        16
        He was an open-hearted boy, and never took advantage of my mother's favouritism.
        Aylwin
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        Translations for favouritism
        Portuguese
        discriminação
        Favouritism through the time
        Favouritism across language varieties
        Ireland
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common