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worldly-wise

ADJECTIVE
  1. experienced in and wise to the ways of the world

How To Use worldly-wise In A Sentence

  • A more worldly-wise chap, I suppose, would simply have thrown himself into a succession of shallow love-affairs that were really quite fun. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
  • She sighed and put on one of her worldly-wise expressions - the experienced woman advising the innocent. THE BLACK OPAL
  • These guards were surely worldly-wise and shrewd, but they were clearly not educated to the same degree as the scribes and Pharisees.
  • But because he wrote in a plain style and assumed this worldly-wise tone, he's quite out of fashion.
  • It also appeals to defeatists, cynics, and worldly-wise men who are not prepared to try to change the system.
  • Their recovery periods are a lot quicker and they are a lot more mature and worldly-wise.
  • Well, perhaps not worldly-wise, not wise enough to know how snib locks and human minds worked, but wise in other ways. Strip Jack
  • Educators must be careful not to distort or prejudice the reality that is presented to students such that they are making the students narrow-minded and naive as opposed to broad-minded and worldly-wise.
  • We need to be more worldly-wise and for referees to be more strict.
  • This isn't to say that they would just accept that the world is a nasty place and therefore be less optimistic; they could just be as happy as we were, but with a more worldly-wise attitude.
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