- a variation of ill-favored.
ill-favoured
Britishadjective
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unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly
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offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable
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Example Sentences
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“You’d be everybody’s master, if you durst,” retorted Orlick, with an ill-favoured grin.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
One of the travellers, a squint-eyed ill-favoured fellow, was foretelling that more and more people would be coming north in the near future.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The next was a man several years younger; and the third, a stout ill-favoured personage, of nearly fifty years of age.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
It would have been hard to find a more ill-favoured pair of ruffians in a day's posting.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
She was very ill-favoured and ugly in appearance and very foolish, as well as being of a lazy disposition, and, like all lazy people, she was slovenly and dirty in her habits.
From Folk-Tales of the Khasis by K. U. Rafy
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