haggard

Words with a similar base: haggard

'haggard'

[haggard.n.01] as in: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

'haggard'

[careworn.s.01] as in: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; ; ; ; - Charles Dickens

Examples:
looking careworn as she bent over her mending
her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
that raddled but still noble face
shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face

'haggard'

[bony.s.01] as in: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Examples:
emaciated bony hands
a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
eyes were haggard and cavernous
small pinched faces
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

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