gaunt
adjective
extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
gauntly
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a word derived from
gaunt.
Example Sentences
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Liberal Justice Brandeis, 80, most ancient member of the Court, looks gauntly on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years later, a dying ex-President grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the gauntly Gothic cathedral, past the huge monument of John Huss at the stake, rolled organ music.
From Time Magazine Archive
New York's critics gave every sign of wanting to welcome Barbara home with loud huzzas when she came back to Broadway last fall in John Steinbeck's gauntly Saroyanesque play, Burning Bright.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her obstetrician, Dr. Ashley, gauntly handsome in a Lord Mountbatten sort of way, with fine sand-colored hair swept back from his temples, arrives to examine her progress.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
