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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
Synonyms
Examples for "discrimination"
Examples for "discrimination"
1
GINA bars genetic discrimination in just two cases: employment or health insurance.
Wired
2
Israel's Arab minority has long suffered from discrimination in the job market.
The Irish Times
3
In a statement, Immigration New Zealand said it rejected claims of discrimination.
Radio NZ
4
She said law reform could help put an end to this discrimination.
Radio NZ
5
However, access to diagnostic tests for discrimination of febrile illnesses is needed.
Pubmed
1
They exclude all wrath and favoritism from the disposition of the Deity.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
2
He talked to them all in a mass and showed no favoritism.
The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
3
Takes From Eagle doted on her but strove to show no favoritism.
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1
4
Concerning Jane, I must be pardoned in advance for a father's favoritism.
The Fat of the Land: The Story of an American Farm
5
Professor Leonard looks to me like a person who wouldn't show favoritism.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
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
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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