world-weary
Example Sentences
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The world-weary consumer of news might reasonably wonder if we’re headed into another version of climate alarmism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Brian Cox is one of Hollywood’s go-to guys when they need to convey something hard-edged and world-weary.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2025
Gone was the innocence of the 1960s - and in its place, a post-punk performer of depth and world-weary experience.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
For “Stress Positions,” the writer-director Theda Hammel shows her hand when a character says, in a world-weary voice-over, that the madness we’re about to witness “happened so long ago.”
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
He was slow and flaccid, with the kind of world-weary negativism you might find in employees behind the counter of a fast-food restaurant at a highway rest stop.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
