Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Hard-featured; ill-looking.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having coarse features; harsh of countenance; repellent in aspect.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Examples
-
Kilian presently made his appearance, a stout hard-favored man-at-arms,
-
There are women capable of neither, hard-favored or silly women.
-
Never did Christmas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of countenances; those who were not handsome were, at least, happy; and happiness is a rare improver of your hard-favored visage.
-
Around the walls hung the hard-favored portraits of the heroes of the house of
-
A smile lay too easily on her lips for her to care whether his hard-favored features cracked with one.
-
The colloquy between the two thus concluded, the horseman -- a strongly-built, hard-favored, muscular man of forty -- set spurs to his horse; and bounding onward toward Wilson's (distant some five miles -- the ravine being about half way between the residence of the groom and bride,) he was quickly lost to the sight of the other, who quietly seated himself to await the reinforcement.
-
QUICK '- Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage..
-
But as the people changed, changed also were the Twain, small and misshapen, hard-favored and unyielding of will, strong of spirit, evil and bad.
-
"Cousin Betsey" was to me a terrible old lady, — large, masculine, "hard-favored," and with a wart on her chin.
-
Among these was Mr. Story, and I ate a dinner there that it took me a week to digest, having been obliged to swallow so much hard-favored nonsense from a loud-talking baronet whose name, thank God, I forget, but who maintained Byron was not a man of courage, and therefore his poetry was not readable.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.