haggard
/ˈhæɡ.ɚd/ noun C2- A hunting bird captured as an adult.
- A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
Plural haggards
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Oh, my father, must your past career always interfere with my successes?” Suddenly a light passed over his face, a smile played round his set mouth, and his haggard eyes were fixed in thought.
His face was drawn and haggard.
He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly.
He was a thin, gruff, bespectacled man of middle age, his cheeks haggard, and his hands twitching from the nervous strain to which he had been subjected.
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