hard-favored
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hard-favored
First recorded in 1505–15
Example Sentences
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They had a hard-favored grimness and taciturnity that with their mountain scenery reminded me of New England now and again, and gave me the bewildered sense of having dropped down in some little anterior America.
From A Little Swiss Sojourn by Howells, William Dean
A mass of iron gray hair gave a grizzly finish to his hard-favored visage.
From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington
The big, raw-boned woman's hard-favored countenance was lit up with motherly solicitude, as she lifted, rather than assisted, Zadkiel, down the steps of the tavern.
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Bellamy, Edward
Around the walls hung the hard-favored portraits of the heroes of the house of Katzenellenbogen, and the trophies which they had gained in the field, and in the chase.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington
Tall, gaunt, hard-favored was this candidate for the American calendar; but Bonilacia might be her name.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret
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