All 4 Uses of
haggard
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- But suppose, Harry, I became haggard, and old, and wrinkled?†
Chpt 8 *
- …censer; and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse; and, as Domitian, had wandered through a corridor lined with marble mirrors, looking round with haggard eyes for the reflection of the dagger that was to end his days, and sick with that ennui, that terrible taedium vitae, that comes on those to whom life denies nothing; and had peered through a clear emerald at the red shambles of the…†
Chpt 11
- In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily-painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust.†
Chpt 16
- "Why didn't you kill him?" she hissed out, putting her haggard face quite close to his.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(haggard) showing the wearing effects of overwork or suffering