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Favour Favoured Regard Support Show Find Modern Audience

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If you regard something or someone with f_____, you like or support them.If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them.
Will the show still find favour with a modern audience?
No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule.
He has won favour with a wide range of interest groups.
word favour
full-definition
noun
If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them.
Will the show still find favour with a modern audience?
No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule.
He has won favour with a wide range of interest groups.
If you do someone a favour, you do something for them even though you do not have to.
I've come to ask you to do me a favour.
These are gestures of genuine friendship with no favours expected in return.
If you say that one person gives or sells their favours to another, you mean that they have sex .
verb
If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available .
The French say they favour a transition to democracy.
He favours bringing the U.N. into touch with 'modern realities'.
The favoured candidate will probably emerge after private discussions.
If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people.
Unpaid internships are criticised for favouring children of the rich who can work for nothing.
Another possibility is that parents favour chicks that are strong.
Her younger brother was the favoured child, encouraged and admired by both parents.
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