Hard-favoured

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having hard or stern features; unattractive.

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

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

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