hard-favored

[ hahrd-fey-verd ]

/ ˈhɑrdˈfeɪ vərd /

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adjective

South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.

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Nearby words

hard-coated, hard-core, hard-edge, hard-edged, hard-faced, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard-fisted, hard-handed, hard-hat, hard-headed

Origin of hard-favored

First recorded in 1505–15

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for hard-favored

What 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 Warner
Late 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 Stowe
And the hard-favored and the hard-hearted Tom agreed to perform the job for ten dollars.
Pen Pictures|B. F. Craig
Hard-favored, yet so valuable is he, He's ever kept beneath a lock and key.
A Phenomenal Fauna|Carolyn Wells

There are women capable of neither, hard-favored or silly women.
Letters of Two Brides|Honore de Balzac