Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tired of life; weary of living.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Weary of living.
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Examples
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Though their bodies slumped with young agitation, their faces betrayed a life-weary cynicism that aged them.
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Though their bodies slumped with young agitation, their faces betrayed a life-weary cynicism that aged them.
February 2008 2008
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Brothers danced like half-crazed bohunks on speed, swung their life-weary arms to the wail of Denver.
Pheasant Hunt 2010
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I stared at the woman's hard, life-weary face with intensity.
Touch of Evil 2006
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When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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All the same, they invariably appeared at the depot to witness this event, stirring to others no doubt, but incapable of arousing the interest of these life-weary youths.
Prudence of the Parsonage Ethel Hueston
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It was just another such a blue, so she thought, as she had seen on the morning of what was to have been her wedding day, when, heavy-eyed and life-weary, she had crept to the window of her room; then the gladness of the day appeared so indifferent to her sorrow that she had raged hopelessly, helplessly, at the ill fortune which had over - ridden her.
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The pale life-weary young man was alone with the sweet womanly savage.
An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898
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He shifted his hand to her head, which she dropped suddenly, with a life-weary sigh, against his side.
Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894
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Who shall forget those terrible words of the poor life-weary orphan in the boarding-house?
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