What's the difference between wearish and wizened?
Wearish
Definition:
(a.) Weak; withered; shrunk.
(a.) Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.
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Wizened
Definition:
(a.) Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wizened fish is hammered with a mallet to soften it so you can pull it off in strips to eat.
(2) He suggested that Mr Polly did not succeed popularly at the time because "I was a blue-eyed hero up to then and audiences hated seeing me as a little wizened chap with smarmed hair, being a henpecked husband.
(3) The infant had intrauterine growth retardation, absence of subcutaneous fat, and a wizened, aged face, all apparently characteristic of the condition, but also had congenital heart defects and urinary reflux not reported in previous cases.
(4) In some corner of that wizened and cynical mandarin remains a shining belief in the wider, common interest, served by the state and a dedicated class of permanent officials.
(5) So all these fresh, exciting plans are coming out of an administration that is actually stooped and wizened, preparing to shuffle off in its carpet slippers, yet under the crazed impression that it is in the first flush of youth.
(6) Wright points to a stunted and wizened bush nearby.
(7) He arrived in Dadaab on a donkey cart in 1992, at the age of seven, with his mother and father: a thin, wizened man with hennaed hair and light eyes called Idris.
(8) Babies in medieval paintings are depicted as wizened miniature adults.
(9) Ronnie Wood , wizen-faced survivor of rock'n'roll excess, is sipping daintily on a glass of coconut water.
(10) I use the analogy of sports, because I play a lot of different kinds of characters - well, I've already mentioned how I didn't think I could do Klute, and I once played a very wizened, tough rancher, and I didn't think I could do it.
(11) Guests included a Chechen commander (later assassinated), sports and cultural celebrities, "wizened brown peasants", a nanophysicist, "a drunken wrestler" called Vakha and a first-rank submarine captain.