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
Looking down upon the treetops of the forest from a height, there seemed to come from day to day a hoariness in the boughs, a greyish hue, distinct from the blackness of winter.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
Hoar, hōr, adj. white or grayish-white, esp. with age or frost: mouldy.—n. hoariness: age.—v.i.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Here there met them an old man, handsome in his hoariness and of a venerable bearing and a dignified, agreeable of aspect and apparel.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
