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Recent Examples of haggard His cheeks were hollow, and a grizzled beard, which hadn’t seen a proper shave in weeks, made his face look older and all the more haggard. Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024 What’s lost is the heat and swashbuckling adventure of the original tale, a humanist turn that finds Odysseus at the end of his mortal coil, Fiennes at first haggard, awash naked on the shores of Ithaca after a shipwreck has left him unmoored and divorced from his former kingdom. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024 Ralph Fiennes’ Odysseus, back from the Trojan War, washes up on the shores of Ithaca after 20 years away, haggard and unrecognizable. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024 Yes, everyone looks skinny, haggard, and a little bit filthy, but not in the way Sue normally looks filthy. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for haggard
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Adjective
  • Recent photos of Bieber out and about show him looking gaunt and disappearing into his clothes.
    Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
  • While Kahn was on the GLP-1 bandwagon earlier than most, her story has become the norm for those using weight loss drugs, finding their skin is looser and their face is more gaunt, creating a wealth of opportunity across the beauty ecosphere.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • Last week, skeletal remains found on New Jersey beaches were identified as those of a 19th-century schooner captain.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 May 2025
  • The skeletal remains of a 53-year-old north Charlotte man who went missing in 2016 were found in a Davidson County scrapyard on May 14, police said Wednesday.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2025

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“Haggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haggard. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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