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ill-favoured

British  

adjective

  1. unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly

  2. offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • ill-favouredly adverb
  • ill-favouredness noun

Example Sentences

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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 Literature

The next was a man several years younger; and the third, a stout ill-favoured personage, of nearly fifty years of age.

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

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

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In one part it wound under the timbers of a house; it was dark and somewhat foul, and altogether so ill-favoured a path that I was glad I had brought my arms.

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