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
The leaves of this variety are green, without any hoariness; long, narrow, and more sharply pointed than those of most of the other kinds.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Kean, Charles John
