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Recent Examples of careworn
There’s certainly a spirit of lively, spontaneous community in the film’s ensemble of screen newcomers, all cast from the region and fluent in its distinctive Henan dialect, who collectively contribute a vital air of careworn, lived-in human texture to proceedings.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
McVie had a foghorn of a voice and a careworn face that conveyed the fallout of many, many years of bus rides, motels and late-night diners.
—Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Her careworn beauty holds the camera rapt even while silently going about her job in a manner that plays as naturally absorbing.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
His Ethan has become more careworn, jaded, emotionally bruised; he’s acquired the gravitas that comes with loss.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
Olena Voievoda Ukrainians are increasingly careworn after a year of war.
—John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
Indeed the film’s whole ensemble, even at its most fractiously opposed, is steered toward creased, careworn restraint rather than shouty grandstanding.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
His face has a careworn quality now, with fatigue and layers of pain around the eyes.
—Time, 7 Dec. 2022
The Futurist Cookbook wasn't meant to be an instructive culinary text or a careworn book in the kitchens of Milan.
—Amanda Arnold, Bon Appétit, 23 June 2022
Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
McVie had a foghorn of a voice and a careworn face that conveyed the fallout of many, many years of bus rides, motels and late-night diners.
—Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Her careworn beauty holds the camera rapt even while silently going about her job in a manner that plays as naturally absorbing.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
His Ethan has become more careworn, jaded, emotionally bruised; he’s acquired the gravitas that comes with loss.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
Olena Voievoda Ukrainians are increasingly careworn after a year of war.
—John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
Indeed the film’s whole ensemble, even at its most fractiously opposed, is steered toward creased, careworn restraint rather than shouty grandstanding.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
His face has a careworn quality now, with fatigue and layers of pain around the eyes.
—Time, 7 Dec. 2022
The Futurist Cookbook wasn't meant to be an instructive culinary text or a careworn book in the kitchens of Milan.
—Amanda Arnold, Bon Appétit, 23 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for careworn
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While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
26 Apr. 2025
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Sunday, the Sox, who are now an impossibly bad 31-100, locked up the sixth triple-digit-loss season in their woebegone history with a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
25 Aug. 2024
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The Mad Men echoes are tough to shake, too: There are shots in here, like Coop looking forlorn in an elevator, that might as well be episodic photos from Mad Men.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
11 Apr. 2025
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This funny, strange and fundamentally forlorn film about the city’s gentrification provided a breakout role for Jonathan Majors as a lost artistic soul.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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After failing to win their third straight Super Bowl, things seemed a bit glum, but some decent moves have been made by the team so far.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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But in a season filled with glum for the Sixers, Guerschon Yabusele has been a bright spot.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Ennui, in particular, looks like a disaffected teenager, with her drooping stance, her perpetually downcast eyes and her constant frown.—
Julie Tremaine,
Peoplemag,
15 June 2024
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Its consumers are downcast, with youth unemployment rampant.—
Paul Wiseman,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2024
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As Wilshere and his players greeted the Norwich fans, across the Riverside pitch, Michael Carrick and his Middlesbrough squad were conducting a disconsolate lap of appreciation in a largely emptied stadium.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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After noticing disconsolate tourists wandering the perimeter, Taskinen proposed installing a café on the ground floor and restoring the building’s four spacious apartments into modest but comfortable rooms filled with Artek furniture.—
Michael Snyder,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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In May 2024, prospects for the United States becoming a global innovation center for digital assets and other promising blockchain technologies were gloomy.—
Dan Ikenson,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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What To Know China's main stock indexes—the CSI 300 and the MSCI China—fell on Monday, with similar gloomy sentiment gripping Asian markets.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The cameras lingered on crestfallen Aston Villa faces.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Giana Sabatino, a shelter worker at the Providence Animal Center in Pennsylvania, posted the clip of Sadie the dog looking crestfallen within the confines of a kennel.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Kraft had strong leads among some voting groups polled, the poll showed, including Republicans, voters who disapprove of Boston’s sanctuary city status, those unhappy with Boston’s quality of life, and those prioritizing government spending/taxes.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
1 May 2025
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Among those Americans unhappy with the cuts to the federal government, Musk has only a 6% approval rating, while 89% disapprove.—
Catherine Arnst,
Quartz,
28 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Careworn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/careworn. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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