gaunt gawnt adjective WS #21

lean and haggard, especially because of hunger, age, or illness; bleak and forbidding in appearance

1. The gaunt trees stood bare against the winter sky, their branches reaching like skeletal fingers.
2. His gaunt face revealed the stress and sleepless nights he had endured.
3. The gaunt old man shuffled slowly down the street, his clothes hanging loosely on his thin frame.
4. The gaunt landscape of the desert stretched endlessly under the scorching sun.
5. After months of illness, she looked gaunt and pale, a shadow of her former self.