haggard

Converse of object

• look: They looked haggard, their chests sunken, black rings under their eyes.

Modifying Another Word

• so: She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she did this morning.

Modifies a noun

• face: Holmes sat in a great, old-fashioned chair, his inexorable eyes gleaming out of his haggard face.
• look: The people had a haggard look to them, far thinner than they should be.
• eye: The man of the omnibus was there with haggard eyes.
• woman: He watched as an old, haggard woman hobbled on, and the doors closed.
• man: The haggard man sitting opposite me is an Iraqi Kurd, a poet.
• frame: My whole haggard frame was enveloped in a huge blue flushing coat frosted like a plum-cake with ice and snow.

Used with adjective complement

• look: She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she did this morning.
• become: So if you are not giving your body all the nutrients it needs, your face will become haggard looking.

Noun used with modifier

• face: Her hands were raw and bleeding from moving the blocks of stone, her face haggard.