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One of the travellers, a squint-eyed ill-favoured fellow, was foretelling that more and more people would be coming north in the near future.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“You’d be everybody’s master, if you durst,” retorted Orlick, with an ill-favoured grin.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

If you had grown to be ill-favoured or plain, you might hesitate, thinking my heart would change.

From A Gamble with Life by Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)

The next was a man several years younger; and the third, a stout ill-favoured personage, of nearly fifty years of age.

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

It would have been hard to find a more ill-favoured pair of ruffians in a day's posting.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton