hoariness
Example Sentences
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Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020
What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2012
So the wedding-day came, and grass and trees wore a fitting suit of crisp hoariness.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Looking down upon the treetops of the forest from a height, there seemed to come from day to day a hoariness in the boughs, a greyish hue, distinct from the blackness of winter.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
Knowest thou not that black is the ornament of youth and that, when hoariness descendeth upon the head, delights pass away and the hour of death draweth in sight?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
