haggard
IPA: hˈægɝd
noun
- (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
- (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
- (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
- (obsolete) A hag.
- (dialect, Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.
adjective
- Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
- (of an animal) Wild or untamed
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Examples of "haggard" in Sentences
- For months, the president had looked pale and haggard.
- He was skinnier, haggard, the fear evident in his eyes.
- One woman, Alexandra, turned up looking thin and haggard.
- I mean when he was very gray and kind of haggard looking.
- A little haggard and unrepentant when reached on Thursday.
- For emphasis, the sleeve notes capitalize the H in Haggard.
- Looking haggard and pallid, he relates his unfortunate story.
- III. iii.260 (442,7) If I do prore her haggard] A _haggard_ hark, is a
- Cuthbert, along with the rest of the cast, was made up to look haggard.
- Appalled by their recriminations, the haggard playwright decides to skip town.
- Her haggard, careworn looks speak only too plainly of her dreadful experience.
- The once burly and widely feared general was not disguised but had false identity papers and looked haggard.
- She hadn't told Rhyme that she, like him, would never name a hunting bird, that she'd called the haggard merely "the falcon."
- His eyes were bloodshot, and his face, all begrimed with smoke and gunpowder, wore an expression haggard, gaunt, and very weary.
- The sight of these symbols of foreign oppression recalled the haggard faces and toil-bent frames I had seen on my journey to Milan.
- Here and there a desperate thief, with hungry eyes and thin haggard face, was climbing down through the gap, in rash hope of possible treasure.
- An eyas was a hawk taken from its nest while still without feathers, but the haggard was a bird caught after it had gained adult plumage in the wild.
- ElBruce, it seems litigant retard thinks calling attention to Haggard still being gay is fight’n words. sounds like she has a personal stake in haggard’s ‘treatment’. do we have another ‘ex-gay’ con artist like buttblight? lol!
- Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity.
- As the comments bandied about by pundits and columnists that Sen. Clinton was a "ball buster" (MSNBC Host Tucker Carlson), "haggard" (syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin on Fox News), and "big-bummed" (Kurt Anderson in New York Magazine) became a faint echo in the campaigning distance, would the second woman to run on a major-party ticket in the 2008 election cycle endure similar treatment?