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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishworld-wearyˌworld-ˈweary adjective BORINGnot feeling excited about anything anymore —world-weariness noun [uncountable]
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world-weary• Around him, knowing people, people who were born eating this stuff, are conversing in that world-weary but photogenic way.• These lent a world-weary cast to a face that might otherwise have been babyish.• These faces all look lived-in, world-weary even.• He's like a latter-day Bogart with a battered and world-weary mix of cynicism and hope.• Inwardly he gave a world-weary smile.• world-weary soldiers• For who among us is too world-weary to be awake and watching until the small hours of Friday morning?
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