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hoary::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, white-haired |
| Derivation | hoariness |
nodded his hoary head.
hoary::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | canescent |
Examples of hoary
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That hoary fiat has produced its measure of anguish and hilarity over the years.
From the time.com
They include the hoary marmot, coyote, pika, black bear and Townsend's chipmunk.
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What was hidden and hoary now reveals a chocolate interior, a surprise dessert.
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Foster even made light of that hoary diva-world expectation by staging a contest.
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But Mr Zyuganov's grey personality and hoary simplicities turn off many voters.
From the economist.com
Least felicitous use of that hoary double-play literary device, the doppelganger.
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The mind boggles at what attracted the physicist to the hoary political farce.
From the independent.co.uk
Reason enough to exhume the hoary old horror and reissue its haunting license.
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Riesling, with its intense acidity, is another of those hoary wine-column choices.
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- Grey: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
- Ancient; "hoary jokes"
- Canescent: covered with fine whitish hairs or down
- White or gray with age; of a pale silvery gray; covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent; remote in time past; moldy; mossy; musty
- (hoariest) Superlative form of hoary
- (hoarily) In a hoary manner
- So old as to inspire veneration; ancient.
- Greyish-white with a fine pubescence.
- Gray or white as if with age
