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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

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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

They sit at a Table in the midst of the Chamber, where, among them, Lords Brougham and Campbell look mighty ill-favoured and droll.

From Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick by Richard Doyle

If you had grown to be ill-favoured or plain, you might hesitate, thinking my heart would change.

From A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

Men like you do not love an ill-favoured creature like me, old, bad-tempered . . . with something of the brute under the queenly robes. . . .

From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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