1. in a thin, lean, or haggard manner; with a gaunt appearance
2. in a bleak, desolate, or forbidding manner

Examples

• The old man stared gauntly out the window, his face weathered by years of hardship.
• The abandoned house stood gauntly against the gray winter sky.
• She had grown gauntly thin after months of illness.
• The landscape stretched gauntly before them, barren and unwelcoming.
• He smiled gauntly, revealing the toll that worry had taken on him.
• The fortress loomed gauntly over the valley below.