The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly alt. unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly
WordNet
adj. usually used of a face; "an ill-favored countenance" [syn: ill-favoured]
Usage examples of "ill-favored".
That was when the ill-favored and ill-regarded Themistocles chose, somewhat tortuously, to interpret the phrase wooden walls to mean wooden ships.
King Pest poked in his marlin-spike, that as for the matter of two or three gallons more or less of Black Strap, it was a trifle to a tight sea-boat like myself not overstowed --but when it comes to drinking the health of the Devil (whom God assoilzie) and going down upon my marrow bones to his ill-favored majesty there, whom I know, as well as I know myself to be a sinner, to be nobody in the whole world, but Tim Hurlygurly the stage-player --why!
While I was wondering if he could be a more ill-favored or dirtier specimen of humanity than the others the last comer suddenly appeared—the jolliest and breeziest English naval Second Lieutenant.
One was Xalapan, a village of the Huave tribe, who are a dull-skinned, ill-favored, and ungracious people.
The ill-favored blood of his enemies anointed his head and he searched for honorable single combat.