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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

Then he looked at his beard and seeing that the white hairs in it outnumbered the black, bethought himself that hoariness is the harbinger of death.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

She looked at him and seeing that his beard was dyed, said, 'What is this lewd and shameful fashion and blackening of the face of hoariness?'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir