hoariness
Example Sentences
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Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020
What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2012
A company of Prophets, of venerable hoariness, dressed in golden coats and mantles, with their heads covered and wrapped 85 in gold and crimson, sang with sweet harmony, bowing to the ground, a psalm of thanksgiving.
From King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre by Charles John Kean
A mellow hoariness marked them all, due to their own richly subdued coloring and the long garlands of silvery moss that hung from their boughs like an old, rich growth of hair.
From The California Birthday Book by Various
Here there met them an old man, handsome in his hoariness and of a venerable bearing and a dignified, agreeable of aspect and apparel.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
