How to Use world-weary in a Sentence

world-weary

adjective
  • The hardened look of a world-weary MI6 agent.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Randolph is great, the perfect combination of world-weary and done-with-it.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The two singers’ world-weary voices bring a heft of believability to this sad country track.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Still, Farrell shoulders most of the load as a world-weary sort harboring a big secret.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Tesla shares fell nearly 9% the next day, thanks to world-weary investors who had heard such overcooked claims from him before.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Stuart’s prince is suave, worldly, world-weary, charismatic — every inch a prince, really.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
  • His narration is a constant pleasure — mournful, wry, and suffused with a world-weary poetry.
    — Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Their take on the character was not a newcomer to heroics, but a jaded, world-weary figure in his mid-40s.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Beulah’s not delivering world-weary pronouncements, the way Beth does.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • 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
  • Marcellus is really, really smart, which Molina imparts via a wry and world-weary voiceover.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
  • 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
  • But as Natalia is thrust into an unforgiving world and forced to grow up too fast, Reid’s performance takes on a world-weary tone.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Annette has seen it all, providing loud, world-weary commentary while sucking down margaritas.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Peter Haber plays Martin Beck, a middle-age, world-weary cop who suffered a great tragedy early in his career.
    — Andrea Duncan-Mao, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The uplift stirs even Guthrie, whose world-weary exasperation is vastly diminished by the power of song.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Everything is grounded in Turturro’s attentive but world-weary gaze.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
  • 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 latest song trades in hope and self-determination, while placing the focus on his voice, as smooth yet gritty and world-weary as the dirt and rocks embedded on a well-trod backroad.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 May 2024
  • But when his disillusioned and world-weary older brother returns to town, Rusty James is forced to confront the reality of his own path.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Berry is excellent as a world-weary mother who struggles to prepare her kids for an unforgiving world while still trying to carve out moments of the happiness that has long eluded her.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Lourd is arresting as a haunted, world-weary girl, who clearly craves a connection with her mother but is looking for something that Shelley simply does not have to give.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Then just in his early 50s, Nakadai played much older, wearing intense, ghost-like makeup to portray a desolate, world-weary warlord.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
  • In the verses, Bradley Cooper and Gaga’s lyrics and vocal lines are mirrored — two world-weary cynics serenading each other.
    — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The song brims with defiance, melded with Jinks’s classic country-rock instrumentation and the burly, world-weary vocal that has become his calling card.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The second interpretation purports to be more hardheaded and sensible, wiser and world-weary after so many years of watching Trump at work.
    — Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Stately percussion and lush guitar work frame the artists’ commanding vocals, elevating the song’s sense of world-weary intensity.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019

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