wan
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There’s some wan comedy in an early scene where these new-ish lovers debate the ethics of secrecy while revealing the skeletons they’ve been hiding from each other.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Our mother did reappear, looking wan and smiling bravely, and we had to pretend that she was fine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
If you were not eating meat in the 1990s and early 2000s, you might harbor painful memories of the wan, wet vegan dogs of yesteryear.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024
Is it that the many bad versions out there — soggy noodles swathed in bottled dressing and tossed with wan vegetables — make good ones hard to imagine?
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2023
The sergeant looked at the wan figure before him, at the watery pink eyes behind the bifocals, at the dry lips through the white goatee.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing wan
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