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Having a worn or emaciated appearance caused by privation, suffering, anxiety, or age.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Adjective : the haggard faces of the tired troops. ,haggard eyes
  • "haggardness," this "coarseness," &c., &c., for the list is too long to specify, be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.
  • The younger saw haggardness clad in a soiled coverall.
  • Despite the haggardness in his features, he spoke quietly.
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