hard-favoured

Neither is sister Ursula so hard-favoured by nature, as from the effects of an accident; but your honour knows that when a woman is ugly, the men do not trouble themselves about the cause of her hard favour.

Castle Dangerous 2008

Marcilius Picinus, Faber Stapulensis, a couple of dwarfs, [3609] Melancthon a short hard-favoured man, parvus erat, sed magnus erat, &c., yet of incomparable parts all three.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In imitation of whom belike, a hard-favoured fellow in Greece, because he and his wife were both deformed, to get a good brood of children,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

This man looked very different from either of the two who had previously spoken; he was hard-favoured, but modest and manly - looking.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Why, a woman as round and big as our largest water-butt - a rough, hard-favoured old girl.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

'What! Bob, if you married an honest good-natured, and wealthy lass, though a little hard-favoured, couldn't you put up with the high cheek-bones, the rather wide mouth, and reddish hair?'

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

As You Like It 2004

This is not an overdrawn portrait of the farmer race of Arabs, the most despised by their fellow-countrymen, and the most hard-favoured, morally as well as physically, of all the breed.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

They are so hard-favoured and monstrous that none can abide them.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

They are so hard-favoured and monstrous that none can abide them.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002