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haggard

adjective

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

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Word length
7
Starts with
H
Ends with
D
Contains
AG
Scrabble score
13
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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adjective

  1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

    “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”

adjective

  1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

    “looking careworn as she bent over her mending”

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a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
eyes were haggard and cavernous
small pinched faces
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
looking careworn as she bent over her mending
her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
that raddled but still noble face
{'source': 'Charles Dickens', 'text': 'shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face'}

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