hard-favored

[ hahrd-fey-verd ]

/ ˈhɑrdˈfeɪ vərd /

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

Origin of hard-favored

First recorded in 1505–15

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

Baddeck and That Sort of Thing |Charles Dudley Warner
Late one autumn evening, a tall, bony, hard-favored man was observed making his way into the outskirts of the place.

The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings |Harriet Beecher Stowe
And the hard-favored and the hard-hearted Tom agreed to perform the job for ten dollars.

Pen Pictures |B. F. Craig
Hard-favored, yet so valuable is he, He's ever kept beneath a lock and key.

A Phenomenal Fauna |Carolyn Wells

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

Letters of Two Brides |Honore de Balzac