ill-fancied

Updated: July 15, 2025

Both his dress and person were such as, had they appeared in an assembly or a drawing-room, would have been the contempt and ridicule of all the fine ladies there. The former of these was indeed neat, but plain, coarse, ill-fancied, and out of fashion. As for the latter, we have expressly described it above.

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

I hope there have been no perukes singed no ladies frightened no hopes of noble descent interrupted by my ill-fancied jest." "We have seen no such fireworks, my lord; and your female dancer, of whom we now hear for the first time, came forth in the form of our old acquaintance Geoffrey Hudson, whose dancing days are surely ended." "Your Majesty surprises me!

Sir Walter Scott - Peveril of the Peak