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Well-favored   /wɛl-fˈeɪvərd/   Listen
Well-favored

adjective
1.
Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.  Synonyms: better-looking, fine-looking, good-looking, handsome, well-favoured.  "A good-looking man" , "Better-looking than her sister" , "Very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome" , "Our southern women are well-favored"






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"Well-favored" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the good and illustrious Nero, if by chance any one should offer to sell you a boy born at Tibur and Gabii, and should treat with you in this manner; "This [boy who is] both good-natured and well-favored from head to foot, shall become and be yours for eight thousand sesterces; a domestic slave, ready in his attendance at his master's nod; initiated in the Greek language, of a capacity for any art; you may shape out any thing with [such] moist clay; ...
— The Works of Horace • Horace

... back a sob and favored him with a glance of keen scrutiny as she rose to a sitting posture. She was quick at reading character—the life she led had made that necessary—and his manner and appearance were reassuring. He was on the whole a well-favored man—good-looking seemed the best word for it—though what impressed her most was his expression. It indicated that he regarded her with some pity, not as an attractive young woman, which she knew she was, but merely as a human being. The girl, ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... whipping usually bestowed upon returned runaways, the generous king, despairing of winning Elvire's affections, gives her her liberty. In the mean time Zelmis has had his troubles. His master has four wives, beautiful as houris. All four cast eyes of flame upon the well-favored infidel. Faithful to Elvire, Zelmis of course defends himself as heroically as Joseph. The ladies revenge the slight in the same way as the wife of Potiphar. The attractive Frenchman is condemned to impalement, when his consul interferes with a ransom, and he is released just in time to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various



Words linked to "Well-favored" :   better-looking, beautiful, good-looking, fine-looking, handsome, well-favoured



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