He did his utmost to bring Cleomenes into disfavour at home.
The government looked on the practice with great disfavour, because it transferred large areas from the easy access of the state to an ownership beyond its reach.
Within a year the court was brought into sudden disfavour with the country by two events of unequal importance, but both exciting.
The admiral was acquitted, and Cochrane naturally fell into disfavour with the admiralty.
Griesbach, and worked up into an elaborate system by the latter critic. Bengel's labours on the text of the Greek Testament were received with great disfavour in many quarters.