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Recent Examples of haggard Nobody could have given this song so much haggard soul. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025 His cheeks were hollow, and a grizzled beard, which hadn’t seen a proper shave in weeks, made his face look older and all the more haggard. Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024 What’s lost is the heat and swashbuckling adventure of the original tale, a humanist turn that finds Odysseus at the end of his mortal coil, Fiennes at first haggard, awash naked on the shores of Ithaca after a shipwreck has left him unmoored and divorced from his former kingdom. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024 Ralph Fiennes’ Odysseus, back from the Trojan War, washes up on the shores of Ithaca after 20 years away, haggard and unrecognizable. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for haggard
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Adjective
  • In addition to a very gaunt appearance, other symptoms include: Extreme weakness Thin, dry skin with excess skin folds due to loss of fat Sparse, brittle hair that can be easily plucked out 8.
    Jonathan Purtell, Verywell Health, 13 June 2025
  • Recent photos of Bieber out and about show him looking gaunt and disappearing into his clothes.
    Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2023, more than three years after she was reported missing, investigators discovered Suzanne Morphew's skeletal remains in a shallow grave during an unrelated search.
    Paul LaRosa, CBS News, 3 July 2025
  • Hundreds of booths stand barren behind a chain-link fence, mostly stripped to their skeletal remains and covered in fabric or tarp.
    Denise Chow, NBC news, 3 July 2025

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“Haggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haggard. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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