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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lived-in
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
look
▪ The best-looking sweaters this winter have a familiar, lived-in look.
▪ Give your house that lived-in look.
▪ Corduroy has a lived-in look and demands very little maintenance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Give your house that lived-in look.
▪ His 50-year-old lived-in face smiled not out of embarrassment, rather out of nostalgic reflection.
▪ It is not of overwhelming proportions and is presented as near as possible to a lived-in family home, rather than a museum.
▪ One lived-in cabin also had a grassy roof, as if the craft of thatching had died out locally.
▪ The best-looking sweaters this winter have a familiar, lived-in look.
▪ The conservatory still has an old, lived-in feel, which is exactly the atmosphere the Michies wanted.
▪ The flickering lamp above their heads and the patches of colour round the walls gave the room a cosy lived-in air.
▪ These faces all look lived-in, world-weary even.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lived-in

lived-in \lived-in\ adj. having residents; as, a house with a lived-in look.

Syn: inhabited, tenanted.

Wiktionary
lived-in

a. Describing a location as looking like someone currently lives there or has lived there, not pristine, not new. Generally a derogatory term meaning it is sloppily kept.

Usage examples of "lived-in".

There could be no such things as gorillas that spoke English, tilled fields, and lived-in stone castles.

Don was a minivan kind of guy, a [[child-safety-seat]]-toting list-following husband-who-always-says-we-instead-of-I kind of guy who just happened to be living out of the back of a pickup truck because noticing a minivan or a child safety seat or an actual lived-in family house made him lose control of his emotions all over again and so he stayed away from things like that.

The verandah had a pleasant lived-in look, with balls of wool and knitting needles dropped in a willow-withe basket, a leather-bound book on a side table with a maple leaf to mark someone's place, and a yellow brindled cat napping on a cushion.

The verandah had a pleasant lived-in look, with balls of wool and knitting needles dropped in a willow-withe basket, a leather-bound book on a side table with a maple leaf to mark someone’.

Personal items littered flattopped scurries, giving the room a lived-in comfortable feeling.

The subject matter varied, from still lifes of flowers in full riotous bloom, to portraits of vivid, lived-in faces, to landscapes of gnarled trees, rocky hills and stormy skies.

The lived-in portion of the castle consisted of downstairs utility rooms: a kitchen, servants' quarters, pantry, front and back entry-ways, and a laboratory where the earl conducted his experiments in attempting to bring life back to the soil of the Old Provinces.

The lived-in portion of the castle consisted of downstairs utility rooms: a kitchen, servants quarters, pantry, front and back entry-ways, and a laboratory where the earl conducted his experiments in attempting to bring life back to the soil of the Old Provinces.