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Her careworn beauty holds the camera rapt even while silently going about her job in a manner that plays as naturally absorbing.
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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
On a recent Friday, Dolores, a large, careworn woman of fifty, lay in a bed built from used rods and wooden planks.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
Pantomimes stuck with that convention, and one of the stars is still a man dressed as a careworn mother — the Dame.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 15 Dec. 2021
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
On a recent Friday, Dolores, a large, careworn woman of fifty, lay in a bed built from used rods and wooden planks.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
Pantomimes stuck with that convention, and one of the stars is still a man dressed as a careworn mother — the Dame.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 15 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for careworn
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This is what passes for epiphany for the solemn, solitary Jane, who searches for self-knowledge in a woebegone key.Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Beginning his act while seated in the audience, with a cowboy hat obscuring his impossibly angular features, Gosling was in character as the woebegone Ken, a macho hunk doomed to play beta in the toy netherworld of Barbie.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
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Duane Shabazz excels as our forlorn hero, leaning into Juicy’s awkwardness in an earnest way that endears him to the audience.Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
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That evening, then-mayor Jim Kenney held a forlorn press conference.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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In 1976, Jill haunts the public parlor like a glum ghost, no longer a sweet little kid but an an antsy, mousy 32-year-old with a secret cigarette habit.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
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And despite Americans' glum outlook about the economy, consumers are still spending.Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2024
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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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By the time the judge adjourned the court, Bryan was disconsolate.Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Context: Harris — who served as district attorney of San Francisco, as attorney general of California and as a U.S. senator from the state between 2017 and 2021 — could help electrify an exhausted, disconsolate party.Jacob Knutson, Axios, 22 July 2024
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Despite the gloomy 2022 pre-election polling outlook, polls ended up performing exceptionally well that year.Mary Radcliffe, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024
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Of course, in 2008 his gloomy outlook came true with the Global Financial Crisis, and markets have minded his insights ever since.Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
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The promised live music turned out to be a single violinist, and instead of ballroom dancing, there was a pole dancer performing for the crestfallen crowd.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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The shooting and its aftermath took a toll on a crestfallen family and a city mired in underdevelopment.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Instead of simply telling CEOs that employees are unhappy, provide hard evidence that points to why.Alena Botros, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Pickford grew up in a quiet, unhappy house near Richmond Park, in southwest London.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Careworn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/careworn. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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