Thesaurus / haggard
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After the longest regular season in history, it looked like a haggard, overextended league.
THE NFL CHOSE QUANTITY OVER QUALITY, AND ITS PRODUCT SUFFEREDJERRY BREWERJANUARY 18, 2022WASHINGTON POSTAs the slow rescue effort dragged on, haggard emergency workers, who have been toiling in 12-hour shifts, stopped by to pause by the memorial wall for a moment, arms crossed.
MIAMI IS USED TO DISASTERS. THE SURFSIDE COLLAPSE FELT DIFFERENTVERA BERGENGRUEN / SURFSIDE, FLORIDAJUNE 29, 2021TIMEShe was 14 years old and running around with all those old haggard cowboys, like Merle and Willie Nelson and all of them.
Q&A WITH LESLIE JORDAN: WHY HE MADE A COUNTRY ALBUM, HOW CAPOTE SAVED HIS LIFE AND SPENDING TIME IN THE ‘POKEY’ WITH ROBERT DOWNEY JR.GEOFF EDGERSAPRIL 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHis lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBut we must not class in this unclean category Lord Spunyarn and his friend Haggard, who were both playing at the big table.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHaggard merely played for the excitement, and Spunyarn because it was a lesser bore to play than to look on.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThree more coups are played, each of which the banker, that is to say Haggard, wins.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHaggard was in a state of suppressed excitement, and he couldn't eat a mouthful.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBut the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWORDS RELATED TO HAGGARD
- all skin and bones
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- beanpole
- beanstalk
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- angular
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- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- 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
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- jaded
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- wiped-out
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