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hoariest Meaning of "hoariest"

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Definition(s):

  1. (adj) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  2. (adj) ancient
  3. (adj) covered with fine whitish hairs or down

Synonym(s)

rusty, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired

Usage(s):

  1. That money can't buy love is one of pop music's hoariest cliches, but the Beatles well know that too many parents have reached that desperate extreme.
  2. After a long overdue medical checkup, some of the hoariest traditions of sport were declared no better than a hypochondriac's fancies.
  3. ARMY NAVY Neither the hoariest monkey nor the most venerable boa constrictor on the jungle shores of Gatun Lake had seen such a sight as took place on that cobalt.

Quotes

  • Medved said Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner "traffic in the hoariest anti-Semitic stereotypes, showing the coldly calculating Jews computing the cost of their operation in dollars ...... to balance the crimes of Munich."
    on Feb 15, 2006 By: Michael Medved Source: Seattle Times

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