war-weariness
- a word derived from war-weary.
Example Sentences
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The war-weariness in Sadeq’s words reflects the exhaustion felt throughout Lebanon, but especially among the Shiites who form a third of its 6 million residents.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
We have stained a generation of American children — and their teachers alongside them — with a grim acceptance and war-weariness that is sickening.
From Washington Post • May 26, 2022
In Manbij, in northern Syria, war-weariness seems to prevail over politics.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2019
His own aversion to new military interventions - underscored by his last-minute refusal to attack Syria in September - is matched by war-weariness that most polls show has permeated the American public.
From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2013
France was tired of war, but how far the leading statesmen were influenced by that condition, not to be compared to our own war-weariness, was not proved.
From In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf
