ill-favoured
Britishadjective
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unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly
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offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable
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.
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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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