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• a variation of ill-favored.

ill-favoured

British  

adjective

1. unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly

2. offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable

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Other Word Forms

• ill-favouredness
  noun
• ill-favouredly
  adverb

Example Sentences

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ill-favoured

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

“You’d be everybody’s master, if you durst,” retorted Orlick, with an ill-favoured grin.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

We ne'er saw monsters so vilely ill-favoured; with their nasty horns that make one afeard, and their foul nostrils cast up into the air.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Fidunia knew not that her ill-favoured countenance protected her from many a rough jest and coarse compliment.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

Mr. and Mrs. Smallweed vegetated, with their grandchildren, “in a rather ill-favoured and ill-savoured neighbourhood, though one of its rising grounds bears the name of Mount Pleasant.”

From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Allbut, Robert