1
: fatigued by overwork : exhausted
a jaded horse
2
: made dull, apathetic, or cynical by experience or by having or seeing too much of something
jaded network viewers
jaded voters
jadedly
adverb
jadedness
noun
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Examples of jaded in a Sentence
Oh, yes, mate, they're all jaded here now—their last gasps of innocence sucked out of them by Olympic pharaohs who at first played a blatant game of bait-and-switch with Games tickets, furtively putting aside vast quantities of the best seats to sell to fat cats at higher prices.
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Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated, 11 Sept. 2000
I'm jaded with the pulls on me that I can't answer to.
—Robert Frost, letter, 12 Aug. 1924
He became jaded from years of work as a police officer.
a public jaded by political scandals
Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated, 11 Sept. 2000
I'm jaded with the pulls on me that I can't answer to.
—Robert Frost, letter, 12 Aug. 1924
He became jaded from years of work as a police officer.
a public jaded by political scandals
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The timeless story of A Christmas Carol is transported to the cynical world of 1980s New York, in which Bill Murray plays a jaded TV exec who's lost his Christmas spirit, only for him to be visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past (David Johansen), Present (Carol Kane), and Future (Robert Hammond).
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Those two references, of course to the surprise endings of Citizen Kane and The Sixth Sense (sorry if that just ruined them for you), were meant as a jaded eye roll to a tiring complaint.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
Over 15 hours of travelling later a jaded squad arrived to the gulf state on Monday.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Hauser’s jaded ranch foreman Rip Wheeler, who first came to John Dutton as a young boy on the run after killing his stepfather to protect his mother, learned how to be a cowboy from John who treated him like a son.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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James Mercadante, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Those two references, of course to the surprise endings of Citizen Kane and The Sixth Sense (sorry if that just ruined them for you), were meant as a jaded eye roll to a tiring complaint.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
Over 15 hours of travelling later a jaded squad arrived to the gulf state on Monday.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Hauser’s jaded ranch foreman Rip Wheeler, who first came to John Dutton as a young boy on the run after killing his stepfather to protect his mother, learned how to be a cowboy from John who treated him like a son.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Jaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jaded. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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