possible profanity
adjective
- Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.
- usage: "whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
- synonyms: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, white-haired
- Ancient.
- usage: "hoary jokes"
- synonyms: rusty
- Covered with fine whitish hairs or down.
- synonyms: canescent
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