haggard
Example Sentences
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“Caesar had now been performing for eight years,” Mr. Margolick writes, “and, thin and haggard, wore every week of it . . . it had happened in spurts rather than in increments.”
Footage of the Palestinian detainees being released into Gaza, wearing gray prison sweatsuits, shows them looking haggard and thinner compared with photos taken before they were detained.
"I did the one pair of wheels - I will say they're absolutely haggard," he laughed.
From BBC
He is in somewhat better shape as Odysseus, the haggard, haunted heart of “The Return,” Uberto Pasolini’s take on the final section of Homer’s “The Odyssey.”
From New York Times
The household in the 1970s was routinely described as a three-ring circus filled with rowdy kids, lost pets and haggard servants who often quit in frustration, saying Ethel was difficult to work for.
From Los Angeles Times
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