haggard
/ˈhæɡ.ɚd/ adjectif C2En français : mal en point
- Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition · Pale and haggard faces.· A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
- Wild or untamed · a haggard or refractory hawk
Dans la bibliothèque
Her rich tints made the white face of her companion the more worn and haggard by the contrast.
It was seven o’clock when I awoke, and I set off at once for Phelps’s room, to find him haggard and spent after a sleepless night.
It was late when my friend returned, and I could see, by a glance at his haggard and anxious face, that the high hopes with which he had started had not been fulfilled.
Cyril Overton, Trinity College, Cambridge, announced the arrival of an enormous young man, sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle, who spanned the doorway with his broad shoulders, and looked from one of us to the other with a comely face which was haggard with anxiety.
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