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ill-favoured

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ill-favoured US, ill-favored
adj
1. unattractive or repulsive in appearance; ugly
2. offensive, disagreeable, or objectionable
ill-favouredly  US, ill-favoredly adv
ill-favouredness  US, ill-favoredness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.ill-favoured - usually used of a face; "an ill-favored countenance"
ugly - displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"
Translations
ill-favoured ill-favored (US) [ˈɪlˈfeɪvəd] ADJ (liter) (= ugly) → mal parecido
ill-favoured ill-favored (Am) [ˌɪlˈfeɪvəd] adj (ugly) → sgraziato/a, brutto/a; (objectionable) → sgradevole
ill-favoured ill-favored (Am) [ˌɪlˈfeɪvəd] adj (ugly) → sgraziato/a, brutto/a; (objectionable) → sgradevole


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"I will tell you," answered Sancho; "it was because I have been looking at you for some time by the light of the torch held by that unfortunate, and verily your worship has got of late the most ill-favoured countenance I ever saw: it must be either owing to the fatigue of this combat, or else to the want of teeth and grinders.
His own ill-favoured person, which was quite unmarketable, escaped without injury; but poor Wildfire, unconscious of his price, turned on his flank and painfully panted his last.
The breast of his coat was ornamented with an outside pocket from which there peeped forth the cleanest end of a very large and very ill-favoured handkerchief; his dirty wristbands were pulled on as far as possible and ostentatiously folded back over his cuffs; he displayed no gloves, and carried a yellow cane having at the top a bone hand with the semblance of a ring on its little finger and a black ball in its grasp.
 
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