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Ill-favoured

Ill-favored \Ill`-fa"vored\, Ill-favoured \Ill`-fa"voured\, a. Wanting beauty or attractiveness; unattractive; deformed; ugly; ill-looking; -- usually used of a face; as, an ill-favored countenance.

Ill-favored and lean-fleshed.
--Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.

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ill-favoured

a. (alternative form of ill-favored English)

WordNet
ill-favoured

adj. usually used of a face; "an ill-favored countenance" [syn: ill-favored]

Usage examples of "ill-favoured".

We were building a schooner from the wreckage when a horde of ill-favoured raparees attacked us - Dyaks and Malays led by a nasty confident qucan, a bloody-minded covetous froward strumpet.

I had never expected to find the Grand Inquisitor of Madrid a kindly and intelligent, though ill-favoured, prelate.

Celwin had somehow evaded the prohibition on ugly things in Ynys Trebes for, without the cowl he had worn in the library, he appeared as an astonishingly ill-favoured man with one sharp eye, a mildewed eyepatch on the other, a sour twisted mouth, lank hair that grew behind a ragged tonsure line, a filthy beard half hiding a crude wooden cross hanging on his hollow chest, and with a bent, twisted body that was distorted by its stupendous hump.

He was ill-favoured, but a good runner, and was an only son among five sisters.

The breast of his coat was ornamented with an outside pocket from which there peeped forth the cleanest end of a very large and very ill-favoured handkerchief.

He is a corpulent and ill-favoured man, of gouty visage, who prates incessantly in his ugly and incomprehensible tongue.