ill-favouredness
(ˌɪlˈfeɪvədnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being ill-favoured; ugliness, uncomeliness, objectionableness.
| 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus, Deformitas..vncomelinesse, ill fauourednesse. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xlv. 17 Although the illfavourednes of the cross darken the glorie of the Church before the world. 1656 Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 220 Like those glass eyes which squint eyed people wear to honest the ill-favouredness of their faces. 1721 Bailey, Deformity, Ugliness, Ill-favouredness. |