Meaning of worldweariness | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

““You get a hold of yourself,” he said contemptuously. “Spare me your bile and worldweariness; my wife would not agree with you."”

“He praised Mitchum, always his favorite actor and interview, whose worldweariness was the lost soul of noir.”

“As the grizzled, almost-retired lawman on the thieves' trail, Bridges adds a layer of mordant worldweariness to “Hell or High Water.””

“"Germany, land of drugs, of escapism and worldweariness, had been looking for a super-junkie," Norman Ohler, the author of Blitzed: Drugs In Nazi Germany, writes. "And it had found him, in its darkest hour, in Adolf Hitler."”

“Juliet's worldweariness and face-powder dry wit make her an affecting, engaging companion, but not necessarily one to love: she lacks the warmth of Atkinson's most compelling characters.”

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