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What does lived-in mean?

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Adjective
  1. 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.
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He is bullish about his views, and a forceful speaker for all of his 85 years, his lived-in face offering endless interest.
Yet it lacked the usual dust in the air, the homeliness and lived-in appearance his old lab had.
His dry humour and his lived-in face perfectly convey the hopelessness he feels as he tries to come to terms with his personal demons.
Perhaps that's why he has such a lived-in face, the sort you saw long ago on young First World War soldiers returning old from the trenches.
His sound is as warm and full of pathos as his lived-in face would suggest.
The bed, the desk, and the bookshelf were all in one half of the room, and that half was, by far, the most lived-in part of the room.

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