ill-favoured, -ored, a.
(ˈɪlˈfeɪvəd)
Also (Sc.) ill-faur't, -faur(e)d, -fawrd, -fa'ard, -fard.
[f. ill a. + favour n. 9 + -ed2.]
Having a bad or unpleasing appearance, aspect, or features; ill-looking, uncomely. (Chiefly of persons.)
| 1530 Palsgr. 316/1 Ill favoured, layt. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 237 A deformed and ylfavoured bodie. 1611 Bible Gen. xli. 27 The seuen thin and ill fauoured kine. 1708 Swift Abol. Christianity Wks. 1755 II. i. 89 An ill-favoured nose. 1809 in Skinner Misc. Poetry 109 (Jam.) Sae proud's I am..O' my attempts to be a bard, And think my muse nae that ill-fawrd. a 1810 Tannahill Poems (1846) 80 He had an ill-faur't tawtie face. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge vi, Who is this ill-favoured man? |
b. transf. Offensive (to some other sense than sight, or to the mind); objectionable.
| 1552 Latimer Serm. Lincolnsh. (1562) 140, I my self..haue felt such an ylfauored vnwholesom sauor. 1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. lxvi. 742 The whole plant is of a strong il⁓fauoured stinking sauour. 1788 V. Knox Winter Even. I. iii. iv. 258 These are vulgar, ill-favoured virtues. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xviii, Blackguard loons o' excisemen and gaugers..the ill-fa'ard thieves. 1865 Pall Mall G. 4 May 1 Democracy is an ill-favoured word to English ears. |