gauntness

Save for a certain wolfish gauntness, the bandolero was almost himself.

He was surprised at the size of these timber wolves and at their gauntness.

The pallor and gauntness of the concentration camp lay upon him, but his race was used to oppression.

It is the stubbled chin that completes the gauntness of the shipwrecked countenance.

Kenny knew by the flurried brightness of his eyes sunk deep in the yellowed gauntness of his face that he was drunk.