wizened

Example Sentences

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Suede has become an experiment in longevity, driving teenage feelings through a wizened motor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

But the admiring, even celebratory, tone of these paeans to hot actresses remaining hot well past Hollywood’s traditional expiration date masks the shadow side of this phenomenon: The wizened, terrifying hag.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2025

Stewart’s first night back found him grayer — at one point he used his own wizened face as a prop in a joke about the presidential candidates’ ages.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2024

A former neighbor with a soft spot for his mother put him in touch with the most seasoned mechanic in the community, a wizened man who fixed all kinds of engines: boats, generators, trucks.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023

Mr. Clyde had a certain paternal quality that Ignatius liked; the old man, the scarred and wizened mogul of the frankfurter, would be a welcome new character in the Journal.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole