hard-favored
[hahrd-fey-verd]
- South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
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Origin of hard-favored
First recorded in 1505–15
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Hard-favored, yet so valuable is he, He's ever kept beneath a lock and key.
A Phenomenal FaunaCarolyn Wells
And the hard-favored and the hard-hearted Tom agreed to perform the job for ten dollars.
Pen PicturesB. F. Craig
There are women capable of neither, hard-favored or silly women.
Letters of Two BridesHonore de Balzac
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 ThingCharles 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 WritingsHarriet Beecher Stowe