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单词 ill-favoured
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ill-favouredill-favoredadj.

/ˈɪlˈfeɪvəd/
Forms: Also (Scottish) ill-faur't, -faur(e)d, -fawrd, -fa'ard, -fard.
Etymology: < ill adj. + favour n. 9 + -ed suffix2.
a. Having a bad or unpleasing appearance, aspect, or features; ill-looking, uncomely. (Chiefly of persons.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective]
foulOE
uglyc1386
malgraciousa1393
unsightlya1400
loathc1400
ouglec1415
shrewdc1430
unsightyc1440
unwholesome?a1500
evil-favoured1530
ill-favoured1530
uglisome1530
huggeda1533
hard-favoureda1535
evil-liking1535
ill-favorited1579
stigmatical1589
stigmatic1597
sightlessa1616
hard-featured1638
grislya1681
bad-looking1757
unmackly1765
unfavourable1776
dissightly1777
eyesore1798
wavelled1886
spiderly1891
Plain Jane1912
hackit1985
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > having specific appearance
huedc1000
beseemeda1250
lookingc1330
well-faringc1330
well-beseenc1374
farranda1400
homely?a1439
ill-favoured1530
seeming1590
looked1597
ill-looking1633
complexioned1639
ill-lookeda1640
leonine1660
plain-looking1744
natural-looking1810
anthropoid1881
thuggish-looking1903
new look1950
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 316/1 Ill favoured, layt.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Nucillus in Panoplie Epist. 237 A deformed and ylfavoured bodie.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xli. 27 The seuen thin and ill fauoured kine. View more context for this quotation
1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 169 An ill-favoured Nose.
1787 J. Skinner in Edinb. Mag. Nov. 351/1 Sae proud's I am that ye hae hard O' my attempts to be a Bard, And thinks my muse nae that ill-fawrd.
a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 80 He had an ill-faur't tawtie face.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge vi. 266 Who is this ill-favoured man?
b. transferred. Offensive (to some other sense than sight, or to the mind); objectionable.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective] > abhorred or detestable
loathlyc900
loathsomec1440
abhorrablea1475
homynable1489
huggeda1533
ill-favoured1562
abhorrible1602
1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 140 I my self..haue felt such an yl fauored vnwholesom sauor.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxvi. 742 The whole plant is of a strong il~fauoured stinking sauour.
1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. iv. 258 These are vulgar, ill-favoured virtues.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. v. 107 Blackguard loons o' excisemen and gaugers..the ill-fa'ard thieves.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 1 Democracy is an ill-favoured word to English ears.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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