wizened

Example Sentences

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Suede has become an experiment in longevity, driving teenage feelings through a wizened motor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

But the admiring, even celebratory, tone of these paeans to hot actresses remaining hot well past Hollywood’s traditional expiration date masks the shadow side of this phenomenon: The wizened, terrifying hag.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2025

This means that the youngest caterpillars are usually all black, while more colorful caterpillars tend to be the wizened, elders of a given population.

From National Geographic • Nov. 29, 2023

That’s either because we are wizened doctrinal experts or because we have been institutionalized into submission.

From Slate • May 22, 2023

They sent for the old woman, and she came: so frail, so gray, so wizened and wrinkled that it seemed like a breeze would blow her away.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman