haggardness

Example Sentences

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Was he embodying the inner haggardness of the nation, stuck at home for months?

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2020

Doreen didn’t look much better, but the exuberance of her entry was enough to overshadow any haggardness.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

There was a trace of haggardness in her face that told him she, too, had spent a restless night.

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.

Surely Slood might have picked something else to comment on first—his haggardness, for instance, or the increased spirituality of his expression.

From Health Lessons Book 1 by Davison, Alvin

The hidden fires which had given Sir Gerald a certain haggardness of aspect, as though a sculptor had hewed him roughly in marble, had never burned in Sir Denis's breast.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine