hard-favored
[ hahrd-fey-verd ]
adjective
South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
Origin of hard-favored
1First recorded in 1505–15
Words Nearby hard-favored
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How to use hard-favored in a sentence
They were both very hard-favored, and much resembling in countenance some sort of monkeys.
The Diary of John Evelyn, Volume II (of 2) | John EvelynLate one autumn evening, a tall, bony, hard-favored man was observed making his way into the outskirts of the place.
The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings | Harriet Beecher StoweAnd the hard-favored and the hard-hearted Tom agreed to perform the job for ten dollars.
Pen Pictures | B. F. CraigWhat pleasure, I wonder, had she in her life, and what pleasure have any of these hard-favored women in this doleful region?
Baddeck and That Sort of Thing | Charles Dudley WarnerThere are women capable of neither, hard-favored or silly women.
Letters of Two Brides | Honore de Balzac
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