careworn

IPA: kˈɛrwˈɔrn

Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.

Examples of "careworn" in Sentences

“He does repent,” she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.
"He does repent," she said to herself, recalling the careworn face.
Though the Head Boy of our year still looks cherubic, if a little careworn.
"You look --" began Constance -- but "careworn" was a risky term and she stopped.
The next morning we found him dead in his bed, a peaceful smile upon his careworn face — asphyxiation.
The one she had addressed as "daughter" was a careworn woman of forty, proprietress and waitress of the house.
He stood there dazed and unheeding, his bonny brown hair rumpled down his forehead, his face haggard and careworn and boyish still.
But Mr. Kubrick makes the coda work—with Mr. Krause's camera locking onto a host of careworn faces as beasts transform into men while listening to the girl's halting version of a sentimental ballad.
One of them opened the door for Gideon, who entered a large conference room, where President Diggs was talking quietly to a plain but pleasant-faced man in his sixties with the jowly, careworn expression of a hound dog.