Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being haggard, careworn, or gaunt.
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- noun The characteristic of being
haggard ;tiredness .
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Examples
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"haggardness," this "coarseness," &c., &c., for the list is too long to specify, be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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I will not say that my father's face, in all its dusty haggardness, was hopeless.
Chapter 12 2010
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I'm not sure about his baby-faced looks, I'll admit, given the Tom Waits/Alex Harvey aged haggardness the character is meant to have, but with the costume and make-up he sure fits the bill, and I feel a little shiver run down my spine: they're doing the overture.
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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In that flashing glimpse, even as he reined and spurred to make his own horse leap sidewise out from under, Harley Kennan observed the scratched skin and torn clothing, the wild-burning eyes, and the haggardness under the scraggly growth of beard, of the man-hunted man.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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The haggardness of his features seemed more pronounced as he lowered the cup to the bed.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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I'm not sure about his baby-faced looks, I'll admit, given the Tom Waits/Alex Harvey aged haggardness the character is meant to have, but with the costume and make-up he sure fits the bill, and I feel a little shiver run down my spine: they're doing the overture.
Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 2: That Toddlin Town Hal Duncan 2010
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The haggardness of his features seemed more pronounced as he lowered the cup to the bed.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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Oh well, at least my haggardness is not gratuitously induced.
Bearing Witness: Hitting From Behind BikeSnobNYC 2010
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He had the air of a stranger; and seemed, by a certain haggardness in his look, as well as by the dusty soils on his dress, to have travelled some distance.
Oliver Twist 2007
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As the door chanced to be standing open, Mr. Woodcourt was in his presence for some moments without being perceived, and he told me that he never could forget the haggardness of his face and the dejection of his manner before he was aroused from his dream.
Bleak House 2007
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