adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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world-weary soldiers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Around him, knowing people, people who were born eating this stuff, are conversing in that world-weary but photogenic way.
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For who among us is too world-weary to be awake and watching until the small hours of Friday morning?
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He's like a latter-day Bogart with a battered and world-weary mix of cynicism and hope.
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Inwardly he gave a world-weary smile.
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These faces all look lived-in, world-weary even.
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These lent a world-weary cast to a face that might otherwise have been babyish.