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You start losing all this weight and looking gaunt and frail.

One day I was stunned to see that a particular favorite was a gaunt chain-smoker.

In order to play the gaunt Woodroof, McConaughey went from 182 pounds to 135, subsisting on what he calls “a controlled diet.”

Hashi came in first, wearing a white kufi and looking gaunt, reportedly from a hunger strike.

In the small living room where we last met, he seemed more gaunt than wiry, his ear bandaged after a biopsy.

Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.

The Seneschal stood with blanched face and gaping mouth, his fire all turned to ashes before the passion of this gaunt man.

A gaunt, hard-featured domestic completed this interesting family, and she was uncommon too.

The little name sounded so incongruous; it did not suit the big gaunt woman who had almost a touch of the monstrous in her.

He was tall and gaunt, with an unnaturally white face and a mass of hair almost as white in color, though not from age.

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gaunt, such as: angular, emaciated, thin, attenuated, bony, and cadaverous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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