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Synonyms: Adjective
cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, skeletal, wasted
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Examples of haggard in a Sentence
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She looked tired and haggard. We were shocked by his haggard appearance.Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Members of Orange County’s large Vietnamese community are furious after seeing images of Nguyen’s haggard face in a court photo and hearing word of his imprisonment via news bulletins from the Little Saigon media. — Anh Do, latimes.com, "Last year he went on vacation to Vietnam. Now he faces 12 years in prison," 25 June 2019 For all the haggard songs and for all the fried eggs and bacon first thing in the morning for 35 years. — Bonnie Stiernberg, Billboard, "Paul McCartney, Jonas Brothers and More Celebrate Father's Day: See the Tweets," 16 June 2019 Simple: few works of literature since Homer can match the piercing, unshakably humane gaze that Grossman turns on the haggard face of war. — The Economist, "Vasily Grossman, the greatest bard of the second world war," 7 June 2019 On a visit last month, the AP saw dozens of haggard children working in an artisanal mine 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside Kapoeta town as well as children doing other hard labor throughout the city. — Sam Mednick, Fox News, "In South Sudan, some children work in mines to survive," 12 Sep. 2018 As the foreboding chorus of Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana fills the open-air amphitheater, a haggard witch appears on an overhanging television screen to issue a blood-chilling curse. — Charlie Campbell / Kunming, Time, "Finding Love in the Kingdom of the Little People," 1 June 2018 Gregorio, a 62-year-old former carpenter who lives alone, looked haggard. — Sarah Varney, CNN, "Isolation leads to despair, suicide among older Puerto Ricans," 11 May 2018 Everywhere last November show allegedly haggard and sick birds crowded into tight spaces. — Washington Post, "Activists charged with stealing turkey from Utah plant," 4 May 2018 Last May he was arrested for driving under the influence and his haggard face was paraded around the world in his police mugshot. — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, "Tiger Woods' Masters return evokes 'Tiger mania' of old," 3 Apr. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Finally, a sweating and haggard Bourdain trudges to the table with his cauldron of stew. — Kanishk Tharoor, The Atlantic, "Anthony Bourdain’s Extreme Empathy," 10 June 2018 This is what Ignatieff finds in Rio’s favelas, in the municipal workers of Fukushima, in the haggard, persistent survivors of genocidal violence in Bosnia. — James Traub, New York Times, "Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart?," 11 Oct. 2017 The toll was evident on Snyder, who had been transformed from a radiant persona to gaunt and haggard and clearly troubled by the end. — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity.com, "Vahe Gregorian: After long fall from Mizzou, Quin Snyder reinvents himself the hard way," 5 May 2017 HAGGARD: Ian Kinsler Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram? — Brian Gosset, star-telegram.com, "Player Spotlight: Grapevine grad Heather Haggard," 5 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'haggard.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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