Thesaurus / gaunt
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The socialite’s demeanor stood in stark contrast to earlier appearances in court, when she looked gaunt and disheveled and when her team accused jail guards of mistreating her.
SCHOOLGIRL OUTFITS, GIFTS TO TEENS, SEX ABUSE ‘EVERY DAY’: FEDS SLAM GHISLAINE MAXWELL ON 1ST DAY OF TRIALKATE BRIQUELET, JUSTIN ROHRLICHNOVEMBER 29, 2021THE DAILY BEASTCharred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThe Seneschal stood with blanched face and gaping mouth, his fire all turned to ashes before the passion of this gaunt man.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIA gaunt, hard-featured domestic completed this interesting family, and she was uncommon too.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWThe little name sounded so incongruous; it did not suit the big gaunt woman who had almost a touch of the monstrous in her.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODHe was tall and gaunt, with an unnaturally white face and a mass of hair almost as white in color, though not from age.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDThe gaunt outline followed them; each time he looked back the shadow cast was closer than before, almost upon their heels.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThe gaunt creature rose, and placed the basket on the table before Mrs. Rushmere.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIESo still he lay, so gaunt he looked, that Harry's heart gave a great bound; he feared he was dead.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNIn recent days it has been again devastated by the great world war, as its gaunt ruins mutely tell.
THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICOWILLIAM LE QUEUXWORDS RELATED TO GAUNT
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn
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