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gaunt
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If you know anything about Burton’s movies, you know that they tend to feature characters who embody all the qualities of a sickly Victorian-era child: waifish, sunken doe-eye and gaunt faces with a deathlike pallor.
A video filmed on the day of his release shows a gaunt figure.
A mouse stood there: tall, gray, gaunt, very upright.
By then, he’d grown so gaunt and haggard-looking that makeup was sometimes applied to his face to give him a more robust look in public.
A few days later, “gaunt and frail,” he made a visit to the massive street mural in the newly renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, near the White House.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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