gauntly


gaunt

G0062000 (gônt)adj. gaunt·er, gaunt·est 1. Thin or emaciated: "Her smile took up ever more of her increasingly gaunt face" (Lindsey Crittenden). See Synonyms at lean2.2. Bleak or desolate: "She walked along fast ... scared of ... the few shadowy people and the old gaunt houses with their wide inky doorways" (John Dos Passos).
[Middle English, perhaps from Old French gant, possibly of Scandinavian origin.]
gaunt′ly adv.gaunt′ness n.