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gauntly
adverb
uk /ˈɡɔːnt.li/ us /ˈɡɑːnt.li/
in a way that emphasizes how thin someone is, especially when they are sick or hungry:
A photograph of the Prime Minister showed him staring gauntly at the camera.
His face stared back at me from the screen - still strikingly, gauntly handsome.
At the end of last year her clothes were getting tight, and now she's gauntly thin.
Now his face - gauntly handsome - appears on posters all over the London Underground.
A performance by the great pianist - a gauntly handsome man in his early thirties - was a rare event.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
be as thin as a rakephrase
be skin and bone(s)idiom
ectomorph
ectomorphic
emaciated
emaciation
gauntness
hollow
lithe
raw-boned
scrawny
slender
slight
slimness
sparely
thinness
ultra-thin
wasted
wirily
wiry
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