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
   • 1973 March 27, Francis Greenlief (witness), “Department of the Air Force: Reprogramming [Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard: Reprogramming Request 73-21 P/A]”, in Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1973: Hearings before Subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, First Session: Part 3: Department of Defense, Supplemental Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 1973: Reprogrammings […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 946:

     Sir, we are getting more modern equipment. In some cases the equipment we are receiving is a little war weary. It does take some rebuilding and repair. [...] [W]e are doing everything we can with Air Force assistance to bring up the level of maintenance of those aircraft that are a little 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.