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Wearish means (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid..
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/ˈwɪəɹɪʃ/ · adjective
(obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid..
Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].
Who was to weet a wretched wearish elfe, / With hollow eyes and rawbone cheekes forspent […].
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Wearish means (obsolete) Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid..
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Democritus, as he is described by Hippocrates and Laertius, was a little wearish old man, very melancholy by nature, averse from company in his latter days, and much given to solitariness […].
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