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How to use ill-favoured in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ill-favoured? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The owner is an ill-favoured prole, operating on the margins of economic viability and the law.
I have a very good speech in the play, saying that the only reason I'm called a witch is because I'm ill-favoured with age.
The man, an ill-favoured homunculus with hair curling from every orifice, hurled Felix's pig-skin case to the top of a small rusting bus.
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.
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.
His wife, Bridget Christie, performs at the ill-favoured standup hour of 11.10am – which is as eccentric as her act.
The fact is that he is virtually blind to his own grotesquely ill-favoured appearance, as those tiny, narrowed, heavily-lidded eyes seem to suggest.
I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature.
Examples from Classical Literature
This is the time for the pretty who can have many chances, and for the ill-favoured who have few.
One of the men was tall and ill-favoured, the other, short and well-favoured.
He had lately been disturbed by what he considered to be an ill-favoured omen.
He was ill-favoured, but a good runner, and was an only son among five sisters.
He was an ill-favoured, undersized, gruff sailor of fifty, coarsely hairy, short-legged, long-armed, resembling an elderly ape.
Who is this ill-favoured man, and what has he to do with you?
He knew that he was anything but ill-favoured as far as face went.
Dust clung unpleasantly to its hairy and ill-favoured person.
Joseph, on the other hand, had never been aught but ill-favoured.
In the moment's pause I speak of, I saw Uriah's countenance form itself into a most ill-favoured smile.
Macfarlane made some ill-favoured jest about the farmer's wife, but it came hollowly from his lips, and was allowed to drop in silence.
Oh,' growled Ralph, with an ill-favoured frown, 'you are Nicholas, I suppose?
Scragga stepped forward with an ill-favoured grin, and lifted his spear.
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