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dulled interest due to excessive previous experience

or: cynical or hardened due to unpleasant experience

A jaded sailor stepped away from a movie machine while the film was still running.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

You think you're grown up and tired and jaded with everything, but in your heart you're just as much a kid as I am.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
The city of New York, like all cities, had first swallowed the story in jaded silence.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
"And I'm not jaded either."
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
But the original was there as well'more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
Jaded college kids didn't look so blasé anymore.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of the citizens continued searching.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
'Filpo,' said a calm, slender, jaded-looking man who had not even stirred from his armchair.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
The collision was enormous, bringing even the most jaded observers to their feet.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Mary Ann was looking at Flora and her mother with a jaded and judgmental eye.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
His jaded face was camouflaged among the painting materials and fabric.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
At this juncture the jaded horse was spurred into a trot, soon reaching the pines and the camp.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
It was 'his that held the jaded audience, this terrible pain.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
I never grew jaded, the way so many city kids do.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate.
Jack London -- Sea Wolf
If we live thus tamely, To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet, Farewell nobility!
William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
Monika Nilsson was at her desk, an experienced general reporter specialising in political coverage; she could be the most jaded cynic he had ever met.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The weariness of the night wore in upon their jaded nerves, lay upon their dry hot eyeballs.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
My book is out; and jaded and distracted I return to this free page.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
I guess after a lifetime of commanding sailors, she's got an unfairly jaded view.
Andy Weir -- The Martian

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