Tuesday, February 17, 2009

jaded

adj.
  1. Worn out; wearied: “My father's words had left me jaded and depressed” (William Styron).
  2. Dulled by surfeit; sated: “the sickeningly sweet life of the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes” (John Simon).
  3. Cynically or pretentiously callous.

2 comments:

kaotika_amelie said...

¿cómo se puede ser pretenciosamente calloso?

Dónde se ha visto, por Dios.

Alba said...

Desde luego, no siendo insensible o cruel.

No obstante concurro, ser pretenciosamente calloso es de lo más bizarro.

[My hands tend to be more pretentiously cynical than callused anyway.]