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well-favored

[ wel-fey-verd ]

adjective

  1. of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of well-favored1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
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Example Sentences

But Prince Dain is already angry with me just for stabbing the child of a well-favored member of his Court.

In “Rodin,” the Eifman Ballet’s vigorous work about the well-favored artist, imagined passions are channeled into two hours of entwining bodies and sweat that felt like the Olympics of dance.

Rachel, the youngest, was “beautiful and well-favored;” Leah, the elder, was “blear-eyed.”

And the ill-favored and lean cows did eat up the seven well-favored and fat cows.

In person he was a tall, well-favored man, in the prime of life, with hair just beginning to be flecked with gray.

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