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haggard (enc)
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Haggard| Noun | 1. | Haggard - British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | | | Adj. | 1. | haggard - showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickenstired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" | | | 2. | haggard - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare | |
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