The word 'gaunt' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is an adjective that describes someone or something as thin, haggard, and unwell in appearance. Example: The refugee children were gaunt and malnourished after weeks of living in the war-torn city. Example: The old abandoned house stood gaunt and eerie, its walls covered in peeling paint and its windows shattered.
Probably a self-portrait, it is a gaunt, life-sized full-frontal nude with a skin-tone of bilious marshy green and orange nipples and one baleful, red, staring eye.
When I emerge from several mean weeks of 10ml doses of semi-skimmed in each mug of tea, I'm never actually flat-bellied, and my face appears unhealthily gaunt.
At the end of December, al-Jazeera screened a videotaped statement by Bin Laden, in which the al-Qaida leader looked pale and gaunt.
In photographs she is often gaunt and severe-looking, a look which has led to speculation over her sexuality.
Instead of retiring quietly or taking up a party-funded sinecure, the gaunt one-time apparatchik has emerged in recent months as the standard-bearer of a liberal force in Chinese politics that refuses to be subdued by chest-thumping supporters of the "China model".
His collar bone protrudes from his gaunt frame.
From 1893 the towering personality there was Henry Tonks, a former medic turned artist, gaunt and severe.A stickler for meticulous observation and accurate drawing, Tonks guided his young charges towards the early Renaissance masters, such as Sandro Botticelli and Piero della Francesca.
But he would have done it anyway, since he would play stark naked in a coalhole if there was a stake on the table.At 60, shockingly gaunt from throat cancer and with his voice reduced to a rasp, he found himself back in Belfast, cadging money from friends for a drink and a copy of the Racing Post.
The queue for railway tickets at Munich airport looks like a bread queue in 1945 (albeit not gaunt or ill-dressed).
As for pot-bellied, the description no longer holds, since, after a presumed stroke last summer, the Dear Leader looks frail, and as gaunt as his underfed subjects.And unpredictable?
After the fat PA official had delivered his message to the gaunt Mr Abu Mariya, gently requesting good behaviour, he too found his exit blocked by Israeli soldiers, who had put boulders at the entrance to Beit Omar.
