Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Insipid; tasteless; weak; washy.
- Withered; wizen; shrunk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Weak; withered; shrunk.
- adjective obsolete Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Tasteless , having a sickly flavour;insipid . - adjective
Sickly ,wizened ,feeble .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And though he be at a banquet, or at some merry feast, he sighs for grief of heart (as [1849] Cyprian hath it) and cannot sleep though it be upon a down bed; his wearish body takes no rest, [1850] troubled in his abundance, and sorrowful in plenty, unhappy for the present, and more unhappy in the life to come.
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In the Beckett play, Dennehy transforms into the character of Krapp, a "wearish old man" celebrating his sixty-ninth birthday by listening to an audiotape he made of himself on his thirty-ninth.
Inside Higher Ed 2010
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- godmode (You are HERO) - super jump - I like housetop (if You use 80 value on file - Terminator, Rambo & Chuck Norris is .... wearish) - ok speed (You are not turtle) - no tire
Fulldls.com 2008
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