What is "gauntness"

Usage examples of "gauntness".

A few pieces of furniture partially relieved the gauntness of the room.

But his overblown muscularity had given way to a hard leanness--almost gauntness.

Here I stood, my hair chopped and shaggy, my hands still scarred from the burns in the pod, my clothing more like a medieval forester than a modern spacefarer, and standing here as I was, with my shipmates behind me in very much the same clothing, with the same shag and the same gauntness and the same hopes, I felt prouder than I ever had before.

Her hands of their own volition dropped to her neck, to the protruding collarbones, to her breasts, which did not entirely reflect the gauntness of the rest of her.

Under the recent gauntness she looked to have been well fed most of her life, which her five-six of height bore out, and she had a dancer's or a gymnast's muscles.

But, where he had been full of piss and vinegar, he was thin to the point of gauntness, and suffering haunted his face—.