war weary

English

Adjective

war weary (comparative war wearier or more war weary, superlative war weariest or most war weary)

  1. Alternative form of war-weary
    • 2006, Steven Tsang, The Cold War's Odd Couple, →ISBN:
      War weary and exhausted, the UK had neither the political will nor the resources to want another war in which, unlike the Second World War, it would from the very beginning have to play second fiddle to the USA.
    • 2014, James F. Dunnigan, ‎Albert A. Nofi, Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War, →ISBN:
      Even World War II, seen as the “good war,” found the American people quite war weary by 1945.
    • 2016, Brian Astwood, The Haunting of D.I. Stone, →ISBN:
      “But here, too, we are so war weary. Everything we hear on the radio or the television is nothing but negative,” said John Stone.
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