world-weariness
Example Sentences
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Yamagami "exuded a sense of world-weariness and resignation", recounts Suzuki, who began looking into the Unification Church long before Abe's shocking murder.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
Some of the pieces in the book written before this real-life catastrophe, though, suffer from the rote world-weariness of the columnist accustomed to griping to order.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
It involves a prison visit, Barbara Walters, Twitter insults, forgiveness and a kind of shared world-weariness.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
But there’s also something off, even a bit sardonic, about the juxtaposition of Laura, a mousy little blur, and this particular song, with its louche, emphatically unromantic world-weariness.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022
“It never hides,” the scythe told them with a world-weariness that was hard to describe.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
