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Gauntly

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gaunt  (gônt)
adj. gaunt·er, gaunt·est
1. Thin and bony; angular. See Synonyms at lean2.
2. Emaciated and haggard; drawn.
3. Bleak and desolate; barren.
[Middle English, perhaps from Old French gant, possibly of Scandinavian origin.]
gauntly adv.
gauntness n.
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Vholes gauntly stalked to the fire and warmed his funeral gloves.
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I could have wished he had been less obliged to me, for he hovered about me in his gratitude all the rest of the evening; and whenever I said a word to Agnes, was sure, with his shadowless eyes and cadaverous face, to be looking gauntly down upon us from behind.
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