as in gaunt
suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease
the rescued hiker appeared haggard and worn after a week in the woods
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Recent Examples of haggard
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.
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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
Yes, everyone looks skinny, haggard, and a little bit filthy, but not in the way Sue normally looks filthy.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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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
Yes, everyone looks skinny, haggard, and a little bit filthy, but not in the way Sue normally looks filthy.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haggard
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Egon Schiele had his thing for gaunt girls and their undergarments.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
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Tall and thin, bordering on gaunt, he was dressed in blue jeans, a flannel shirt, an old Army jacket, work boots, gloves and a blue wool cap.—
Alanna Nash,
Variety,
4 Mar. 2025
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Daniel Thomas Halloran, who was born in Indiana in 1972, was identified as the 10th victim whose remains were found on Fox Hollow Farm in 1996 among thousands of other burned and crushed skeletal remains, according to Indiana officials and WXIN.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 2025
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True' Almost two years later, on May 14, 1983, partial skeletal remains were found on the island near a private duck hunting club, which is more than 60 miles northeast of San Francisco.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Haggard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haggard. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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