world-weary
weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
Origin of world-weary
1Other words from world-weary
- world-wea·ri·ness, noun
Words Nearby world-weary
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How to use world-weary in a sentence
Or, worse, they are contrived to sound tired, perhaps in an attempt to come off as world-weary.
U2 Generously Gives Us a Lousy Album, Sucks at the Corporate Teat | Hampton Stevens | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt has an old-fashioned, world-weary stoicism that lends a potentially ludicrous story emotional heft.
“It was slightly comic,” he continues in a tone verging on the world weary.
McKean looks so fragile and world-weary as he speaks in his Chicago accent, he seems to require rescue.
world-weary and sick at heart, they still struggled to sustain each other, and to meet their dreadful fate with heroic constancy.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
At an age when other young men affect to be blasé and world weary he was delightfully and fearlessly boyish.
Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Moyes BlackMerle, with his world-weary gesture, swept the impeding lock from his pale brow and set pained eyes upon his father by adoption.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonThe other moral defect in this early work was its world-weary cynicism, which was simply foolish in so young a writer.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsWhat a world-weary sentiment for one so young and doubtless so fair.
A Book o' Nine Tales. | Arlo Bates
British Dictionary definitions for world-weary
no longer finding pleasure in living; tired of the world
Derived forms of world-weary
- world-weariness, noun
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