hoar
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~ showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
hoarse
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~ deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson
hoary
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~ ancient; "hoary jokes"
hoary
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~ showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
hoary
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~ covered with fine whitish hairs or down
hobnailed
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~ marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; "hobnailed laborers"
ad hoc
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~ often improvised or impromptu; "an ad hoc committee meeting"
ad hoc
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~ for or concerned with one specific purpose; "a coordinated policy instead of ad hoc decisions"
hogged
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~ (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end
hoggish
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~ resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
hokey
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~ artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
hokey
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~ effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
hole-and-corner
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~ conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"
hole-and-corner
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~ relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life; "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells
holey
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~ allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
holistic
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~ emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole
hollow
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~ devoid of significance or force; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"
hollow-eyed
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~ characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver
hollow
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~ not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"
hollow
— Tillægsord
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~ as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"