Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a jaded manner; wearily.
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- adverb In a
jaded manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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People can change for the better, but IMO, Edwards has been a political opportunist for much too long for me to not view him somewhat jadedly.
Krugman Hits Obama Yet Again -- This Time On Battle With Edwards Over 527s 2009
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Dodie, I mentioned to Gary the other day how much I was loving your blog, the newfound honeymoon energy of it, and we wondered jadedly we've both been blogging since, eek, 2002!
Time Gobbler Dodie Bellamy 2008
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Well, for God's sake, he snapped jadedly at himself, the word hasn't got thorns, you know.
I Am Legend Matheson, Richard, 1926- 1954
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I should like to have you opposite me in any mood, whether the facetiously discursive, the metaphysically discursive, the personally confidential, or the jadedly CURSIVE and argumentative -- so that the oyster-shells which enclose my being might slowly turn open on their rigid hinges under the radiation, and the critter within loll out his dried-up gills into the circumfused ichor of life, till they grow so fat as not to know themselves again.
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The rest, heavy with food and sunshine, nibbled jadedly at the remnants of the feast, exchanging broken, drowsy comments.
The Dark House 1922
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So it had always been, and so, no doubt, it would continue to be for many years to come; and she, no doubt, for many summers, would arrive from Basle to sit, jadedly, looking at it.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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Lapham listened jadedly, and answered far from the point.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878
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A lack of recognition results in a sentiment of disillusion that jadedly questions "Is that all there is?"
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dimitri Hamlin 2012
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A lack of recognition results in a sentiment of disillusion that jadedly questions "Is that all there is?"
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dimitri Hamlin 2012
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A lack of recognition results in a sentiment of disillusion that jadedly questions "Is that all there is?"
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dimitri Hamlin 2012
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