All 4 Uses of
wizened
in
The Jungle by Sinclair
- He stamps with his feet, he tosses his head, he sways and swings to and fro; he has a wizened-up little face, irresistibly comical; and, when he executes a turn or a flourish, his brows knit and his lips work and his eyelids wink—the very ends of his necktie bristle out.†
Chpt 1
- Mrs. Jukniene was a wizened-up little woman, with a wrinkled face.
Chpt 2 *wizened = thin and wrinkled
- She was a wrinkled-up and wizened personage—she must have been eighty—and as she mumbled the grim story through her toothless gums, she seemed a very old witch to them.†
Chpt 6
- Comrade Ostrinski was a little man, scarcely up to Jurgis's shoulder, wizened and wrinkled, very ugly, and slightly lame.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(wizened) thin and wrinkled -- typically from age or illness