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hard-favored

[ hahrd-fey-verd ]

adjective

  1. South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-favored1

First recorded in 1505–15

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Example Sentences

They were both very hard-favored, and much resembling in countenance some sort of monkeys.

Late one autumn evening, a tall, bony, hard-favored man was observed making his way into the outskirts of the place.

And the hard-favored and the hard-hearted Tom agreed to perform the job for ten dollars.

What pleasure, I wonder, had she in her life, and what pleasure have any of these hard-favored women in this doleful region?

There are women capable of neither, hard-favored or silly women.

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