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Definition of Ill-favored
1. Adjective. Usually used of a face. "An ill-favored countenance"
Definition of Ill-favored
1. Adjective. unpleasing to the eye; ugly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-favored
Literary usage of Ill-favored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him. (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Alighieri (1887)
"Of an ill-favored Lady. JUST look, Manetto, at that wry-mouthed minx; How well
contrived in her deformities, How beastly favored when she scowls and blinks. ..."
2. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"Of an ill-favored Lady. JUST look, Manetto, at that wry-mouthed minx; How well
contrived in her deformities, How beastly favored when she scowls and blinks. ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... An Ill-Favored Lady. When (who could think?) though cold ae (Imitated from
Martial.) While in the dark on thy soft hand I hang, And heard the tempting ..."
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