hagged

comparative more hagged · superlative most hagged

1. Like a hag; ugly.

   The ghostly prudes with hagged face Already had condemned the sinner.

   c. 1750, Thomas Gray, A Long Story (poem)

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   Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony, As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe, Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy hagged face.

   1799, Robert Southey, Poems (poem), The Soldier's Wife

   The face of yourself you see in the mirror with its expression of unbearable anguish so hagged and awful with sorrow you cant even cry for a thing so ugly, so lost, no connection whatever with early perfection and therefore nothing to connect with tears or anything

   1962, Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, Chapter 2

   Synonyms: haglike

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of hag