hard-favoured

English

Alternative forms

• hard-favored

Adjective

hard-favoured (comparative more hard-favoured, superlative most hard-favoured)

1. Having hard or stern features; unattractive.
   • 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 4”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Vulcan […] was so hard-favoured, that both his parents frowned on him, and Jupiter threw him out of heaven.