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haggard

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1. haggard - Noun

2. haggard - Adjective

3. haggard - Adjective Satellite

4. Haggard - Proper noun

Meaning

Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.

Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

A fierce, intractable creature.

A hag.

A stackyard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness calling their denial knowled. George Eliot

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. Warren Zevon

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain. Hunter S. Thompson

A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! W. S. Gilbert

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower. Thomas Kyd

Europe is not old, haggard or barren. Europe is young, dynamic and vital. Our continent remains the best place in the world to live. Donald Tusk

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