Meaning

3 senses
  1. Looking like someone currently lives there or has lived there, not pristine, not new

  2. (euphemistic)Looking sloppily kept.

  3. Fully-realized, well-observed.

    2012, January 24. Richard Brody, "A Better Nomination", The New Yorker. "Pitt's performance is lived-in, exhuberant, hearty …"

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