How To Use Ill-favoured In A Sentence
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Actually, so far as he could judge, the majority of people in Airstrip One were small, dark, and ill-favoured.
Nineteen Eighty-four
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He also had some fun mocking an ill-favoured ginger-haired family: ‘There are some things in life you can't choose.’
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Francesca, daughter of Giovanni da Polenta, count of Ravenna, was given in marriage by him to Giovanni (Sciancato, the Lame) Malatesta, of Rimini, an ill-favoured man, in return for his military services.
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Everyone in the village seems to bear some festering discontent: Mikey is an ill-favoured farm labourer who likes starting fires and despises the handsome new Australian hand who has appeared on the scene.
Hill Farm by Miranda France – review
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Any changes to the council tax system, for example the introduction of new bands, should not be allowed to worsen the already ill-favoured position of rural areas.
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Dougal was glad to see Steenie, and brought him into the great oak parlour, and there sat the laird his leesome lane, excepting that he had beside him a great, ill-favoured jackanape, that was
Redgauntlet
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Uncannily she appears: an ill-favoured old crone who is transformed into fresh young Papagena once he engages to marry her.
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They were, not to put too fine a point on it, an ill-favoured bunch.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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Presently, up came two ill-favoured fellows and said to him, Come, O man, and speak with the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well favored and fat kine...and the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.
Daily Bread for the three D's
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This deformity alone was a tragedy to one like Michelangelo who loved everything beautiful, yet must go through life knowing himself to be ill-favoured.
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On general examination, Gollum is a pale, emaciated hobbit, with scanty hair and big eyes: ‘A skulking creature with an ill-favoured look.’
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Review's ill-favoured phiz, we find that the filthy snudge is yet more mischievous and ignorant than these ignorant wretches here, since they
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
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Thereat was a stir amongst the Men of the Fleece of the Shepherds, and their ranks opened, and there came forth an ill-favoured lean old man, long-nebbed, blear-eyed, and bent, girt with a rusty old sword, but not otherwise armed.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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“Aweel, Tibb, a lass like me wasna to lack wooers, for I wasna sae ill-favoured that the tikes wad bark after me.”
The Monastery
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This deformity alone was a tragedy to one like Michelangelo who loved everything beautiful, yet must go through life knowing himself to be ill-favoured.
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Besides a rack for kitchen utensils, there is only a stand on which are six large brown dishes with food for sale — salt shell-fish, in a black liquid, dried trout impaled on sticks, sea slugs in soy, a paste made of pounded roots, and green cakes made of the slimy river confervae, pressed and dried — all ill-favoured and unsavoury viands.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Francesca, daughter of Giovanni da Polenta, count of Ravenna, was given in marriage by him to Giovanni (Sciancato, the Lame) Malatesta, of Rimini, an ill-favoured man, in return for his military services.
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Uncannily she appears: an ill-favoured old crone who is transformed into fresh young Papagena once he engages to marry her.
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On general examination, Gollum is a pale, emaciated hobbit, with scanty hair and big eyes: ‘A skulking creature with an ill-favoured look.’
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Dougal was glad to see Steenie, and brought him into the great oak parlour, and there sat the laird his leesome lane, excepting that he had beside him a great, ill-favoured jackanape, that was
Redgauntlet
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He is afflicted with recurring clinical depression, driven by stress - for instance, by terror about jumping out of aeroplanes or plucking up the nerve to mention to Mma Ramotswe his custody of two ill-favoured orphans.
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He is afflicted with recurring clinical depression, driven by stress - for instance, by terror about jumping out of aeroplanes or plucking up the nerve to mention to Mma Ramotswe his custody of two ill-favoured orphans.
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And this was the rare morsel so officiously snatched up, and so ill-favouredly imitated by our inquisiturient bishops, and the attendant minorites their chaplains.
Areopagitica
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She was plump-cheeked, as I've said, and under the grime by no means ill-favoured.
Isabelle
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Any changes to the council tax system, for example the introduction of new bands, should not be allowed to worsen the already ill-favoured position of rural areas.
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The owner is an ill-favoured prole, operating on the margins of economic viability and the law.
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The owner is an ill-favoured prole, operating on the margins of economic viability and the law.
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He also had some fun mocking an ill-favoured ginger-haired family: ‘There are some things in life you can't choose.’
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So, sir stranger, thou art not ill-favoured from a woman's point of view, which was thy real object in coming to Thebes; thy hair is long because thou hast never been a wrestler, flowing right down thy cheeks most wantonly; thy skin is white to help thee gain thy end, not tanned by ray of sun, but kept within the shade, as thou goest in quest of love with beauty's bait.
The Bacchantes
