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ill-favored

adjective as in unattractive

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The primary character is Marek, a uniquely homely and ill-favored young man.

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And she saw the ill-favored one, whose sun-ravaged skin was healing in the citadel’s shade—though he was no more appealing for it.

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“Someone half clever might dub you Pitch or Scuttle, ill-favored names. Or Slate, a sedentary name. Heaven forbid you end up Blackie, that’s an ill-fitting name for a prince like you.”

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“His eyes don’t match neither. An ill-favored thing.”

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Actually, so far as he could judge, the majority of people in Airstrip One were small, dark, and ill-favored.

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