hoary
adjective
gray or white with age.
hoariness
-
a word derived from
hoary.
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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
So the wedding-day came, and grass and trees wore a fitting suit of crisp hoariness.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
And how well saith another: Quoth she to me, "I see thou dy'st thy hoariness;" and I, "I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou my ear and eye!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
