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ill-favoured

adjective

  1. unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly
  2. offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌill-ˈfavouredly, adverb
  • ˌill-ˈfavouredness, noun
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Example Sentences

Three fair things that hide ugliness: good manners in the ill-favoured; skill in a serf; wisdom in the misshapen.

He was not an ill-favoured fellow, and regarded his prisoner in a half-friendly manner, Templemore thought.

I regarded my hard-won and ill-favoured pledges of a meal with giddiness and discouragement.

They have good complexions, being white and red, but very ill-favoured features.

The head of the house is an ill-favoured person, of advanced age and wearing a tremendous wig.

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