What's the difference between careworn and haggard?
Careworn
Definition:
(a.) Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
(2) • £1.50, children only Blackgang Chine , Isle of Wight Photograph: Alamy This is a surreal, slightly careworn adventure park with resident cowboys, pixies, pirates and a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a smoking jacket.
(3) Refugio and Elvira Nieto are reserved people, straight-backed but careworn, who speak eloquently in Spanish and hardly at all in English.
(4) With faith, hope and a careworn charity, Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organisation shook hands on a joint accord at the White House yesterday and rolled the dice of history in what President Bill Clinton called 'a brave gamble for peace'.
(5) Since, though the reforms have been steadily consolidated, an election held which saw her gain a seat in parliament and sanctions suspended, "the Lady" appears more, rather than less, careworn.
(6) An increasingly careworn Van Gaal knows that perfectly well.
(7) A careworn, silver-maned cross between Arsène Wenger and Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander VI in The Borgias, Malcolm describes himself as a "cowboy", poses with an open briefcase full of money – if you will, frozen assets – and claims to "love" the 800-outlet chain's customers because, he candidly admits, "they pay for my car, my house, my holidays."
(8) She had a list of recommended lodgings, and we traipsed around the shabby streets near St George's Cross inspecting rooms to let until we found a street and a landlady who looked less careworn than the rest, and agreed to a price of 35 shillings a week.
Haggard
Definition:
(a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
(a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
(a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(a.) A fierce, intractable creature.
(a.) A hag.
(n.) A stackyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Before that time I had taken in little beyond the juvenile productions of Captain Marryat, GA Henty, RM Ballantyne, Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, all works of adventure and travel, which influenced me to the extent that by the age of 30 I had spent eight years out of the country.
(3) Redknapp wore a haggard look as the thrashing was played out, forever demanding answers from a badgered Kevin Bond at his side as his players wilted out on the pitch.
(4) It had a congregation of more than 14,000 and Haggard became so prominent that he paid several visits to the White House of President George W Bush.
(5) Instead it was the pope who gave the week’s truly ambitious address on the theme of Europe , when he spoke to the European parliament on Tuesday, asking if the continent were now an “elderly and haggard” grandmother, one whose best days were behind it.
(6) But there is no doubt that Haggard is trying to move on and start to rebuild his life and old career.
(7) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(8) Now Haggard says he wants gays and bisexuals to come to his new church, whose first few meetings will be held in the garden of his suburban home.
(9) Haggard now says he is heterosexual, but had gay urges because he was molested by a man when he was a child.
(10) Haggard talked openly about what he calls "my scandal", but also clearly felt that it left him an undeserving sinner.
(11) By Friday, as haggard-looking finance ministers from the G7 club of wealthy nations flew to Washington, the world's financial system was on the brink of disaster.
(12) But hearing them all do Haggard's right wing anthem "Oakie from Muscogee" is a nice enough moment, but we wonder if anyone in the audience has actually familiarized themselves with the lyrics.
(13) "He just got on a plane in Frankfurt," Haggard said.
(14) Haggard said the scandal that wiped out his first career as a pastor had given him a strong insight into suffering and that made him a better counsellor for others who were under stress.
(15) singer Nate Ruess, and a country music jamboree featuring Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Blake Shelton.
(16) Consonant discrimination was assessed using the Four Alternative Auditory Feature Test (Foster & Haggard, 1979), presented in quiet.
(17) They mix it up tonight, leavening their own songs with a medley of Merle Haggard tunes, Waylon Jennings' Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way, Tyson's MC Horses, and their own signature drinking song, It's Time To Switch To Whiskey – played, tonight, well past the point at which everybody has – amalgamated with Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
(18) The revelations destroyed Haggard's career almost overnight.
(19) The formerly burly general was not disguised but had false identity papers and looked haggard and much older, the officer said.
(20) Ted Haggard is back and about to start preaching again.