ill-favoured

British  

adjective

1. unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly

2. offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable

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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

Claude thought he had never seen a more ill-favoured animal.

From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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 Doyle, Richard

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