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• s  very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
  a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys

• The gaunt, withdrawn man began to appear more relaxed, teasing his fellow students.
• To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper.
• After noticeably gaunt models at last year's show provoked outcry from health and women's organizations, the Madrid regional government, which sponsors Cibeles, pressured show .

• bony
• cadaverous
• emaciated
• haggard
• pinched
• skeletal
• wasted

News & Articles

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• Heroin: Unintended consequence of meth, Rx drug crackdown
  Think of a heroin user and what comes to mind? A gaunt addict in some flophouse with a needle hanging out of his arm?
  June 17, 2013 - Tacoma News Tribune
• Village staff to alert swimmers about overuse of herbicide
  The Village will contact those who swam in the Gaunt Park pool from last Wednesday to its closing late Friday afternoon to alert them that herbicides had been applied inappropriately Wednesday morning to the grass around the pool. Related posts: Emergency Council meeting on pool closure New Village emergency contact system Downtown lighting gets a makeover
  June 16, 2013 - Yellow Springs News

Quotes

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• Susan Collins in San Jose Mercury News
  I was struck by how extraordinarily thin he was,Collins recalled. "He was just a stick. He was so emaciated and gaunt."
• Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco Chronicle
  Hemingway described him later as "tall as Lincoln, gaunt as Lincoln, and as brave and as good a soldier as any that commanded battalions at Gettysburg."