haggish
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a word derived from
hag.
hagnounan ugly old woman, especially a vicious or malicious one.
Example Sentences
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Even his compliments have the bite of insults: "You look like the Fate worse than death," he purrs to one of three haggish wraiths.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Edith Sitwell posed for him, projecting a "haggish" aura but displaying her medieval ivory hands to great effect.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Cecilia, en su gloria, in all her spectral splendor,” La Llorona whispered as an ancient, haggish woman walked into view.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe GarcĂa McCall
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But in every case, whether it be Adam's or that of the last man who sinned, it is always an act of free-will—"even in its most haggish shapes sin is the act of free-will."
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones
He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act.
From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare