hard-favored

[ hahrd-fey-verd ]

adjective

1. South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-favored¹

First recorded in 1505–15

Example Sentences

Fair nature was disguised with hard-favored rage, which was itself harnessed and offered outward, to the people, as a kind of service, so that they might express their own feelings of wrath.

From The New Yorker

I noticed one hard-favored fellow, who made a terrible noise, and upon whose features, as he turned the whites of his big eyes up toward heaven, there was a sinister, and, now and then, rather a comical expression, and who, when called to assist in filling up, appeared to throw on the earth, as if he did it from the heart.

From Project Gutenberg

Expressions of affection from the naturally gentle are not half so touching as those which are forced out from the hard-favored and severe; and George was affected, even to pain, by the evident pride and regard of his father.

From Project Gutenberg

He was tall and hard-favored, with an expression of countenance much resembling a north-east rain storm—a drizzling, settled sulkiness, that seemed to defy all prospect of clearing off, and to take comfort in its own disagreeableness.

From Project Gutenberg

Late one autumn evening, a tall, bony, hard-favored man was observed making his way into the outskirts of the place.

From Project Gutenberg