ill-favoured

British  

adjective

1. unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly

2. offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable

---

Other Word Forms

• ill-favouredly adverb
• ill-favouredness noun

Example Sentences

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

Thus the youth became fair of countenance, ready of speech, with hair curling in comely fashion, whereas before he had been ill-favoured, miserable, and dumb.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

I declare you're as ill-favoured as any pug I ever met sitting on a Brussels hearthrug, if it were not for that face.'

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus

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.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.