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John Roberts, the chief justice, hoarily dismissed this maths as “sociological gobbledygook”.

From Economist • Oct. 5, 2017

Mr. Pemberton, senior, most hoarily awful of all the big chiefs, had indigestion or a poor balance-sheet.

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair

P. obconic, umbo hemispher. prominent, at first hoarily silky then glabrous, dusky umber then pale; g. deeply decur.; s. flexile. atrorufa, Schaeff.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George