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
For each of those successes, there are several messy misfires: The wan camp of “The Politician.”
From Salon • Feb. 12, 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
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
Thomas followed him to the steel door of the big concrete block and Minho turned to give him a wan smile.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing wan
The Call of the Wild
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