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

But her look of haggardness, the teeth pressed into her lips, the clenched hands, the chin carried forward in an expression of agonized supplication rebuked my egotism.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George

But there was a haggardness, a look of increased age about the Laird's countenance that Father Bright did not like.

From The Eyes Have It by Garrett, Randall

She half started backward, moved by a new sense of the haggardness of his face.

From "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame" by Burnett, Frances Hodgson