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haggardly

  • a word derived from haggard.
    haggard
    adjective
    having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn.

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“Usually when you go to the border, you see people who are dressed really haggardly and who look like they’ve been through hell,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

But something is shifting as the star moves into his haggardly handsome phase—a twinkly, knowing descent of sorts from his old Olympian heights.

From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2020

In coming installments, she will be delicately angelic and haggardly angular, serene with prettiness and as monstrous as a Gorgon.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2011

He looked at O-lan haggardly and he said, “Now am I truly tempted to sell the little slave and go north to the land.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

They thought he might have been having a heart attack, and Billy seemed to confirm this by going to a chair and sitting down haggardly.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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