How to Use world-weary in a Sentence
world-weary
adjective-
Sneaker wedges remind world-weary Gen Zers of a simpler era.
—Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 June 2023
-
The consolation on offer lives mostly in the prose, which feels hardened by a world-weary resolve not to be conned by false hope.
—Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
-
Peter Haber plays Martin Beck, a middle-aged, world-weary cop who suffered a great tragedy early in his career.
—Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
-
If there’s a woman on your list who seems a little world-weary (or whose toes are known to run cold), treat her to these cashmere pink-ballet slippers that evoke fluffy clouds at dusk.
—Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
-
In both pictures, Yeoh plays a world-weary woman doing battle with a fiery younger one, who seems to scorn her life of devotion and sacrifice.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
-
Eddie Valiant is cut from the same cloth as many iconic hardboiled detectives, cynical and world-weary.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
-
Again and again, this marvelous English performer, who died on Saturday at the age of 75, located the comedy as well as the gravity in a world-weary visage.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
-
The track’s polished but never overdone production places the focus on Patrick’s warm yet world-weary vocal, and on this essential message.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
-
His world-weary sister Emma (Natasha Wanganeen) is less hostile, but still skeptical that reopening this wound will amount to much.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
-
For Cench, turning violent slang into a cutesy educational shtick for digital audiences, rather than crafting world-weary street-corner narratives, could also be an incidental act of self-preservation.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'world-weary.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: