Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.(adjective)
Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Use "hard-featured" in a sentence
"The latter were big, hard-featured, sheepish-faced men, who stared at Saxon as if afraid of her."
"The children of the neighbourhood were afraid of the hard-featured shrew who presided over the Bartell house; but, summoning their resolution, they rang the bell and told Ann Bartell of the accident."
"What was it about this hard-featured man that inspired such confidence?"