How To Use Worldly-wise In A Sentence
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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
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She sighed and put on one of her worldly-wise expressions - the experienced woman advising the innocent.
THE BLACK OPAL
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These guards were surely worldly-wise and shrewd, but they were clearly not educated to the same degree as the scribes and Pharisees.
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But because he wrote in a plain style and assumed this worldly-wise tone, he's quite out of fashion.
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It also appeals to defeatists, cynics, and worldly-wise men who are not prepared to try to change the system.
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Their recovery periods are a lot quicker and they are a lot more mature and worldly-wise.
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Well, perhaps not worldly-wise, not wise enough to know how snib locks and human minds worked, but wise in other ways.
Strip Jack
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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.
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We need to be more worldly-wise and for referees to be more strict.
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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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His left foot can still carve routes through opposition defences and, if some of his speed has gone, then he is also more worldly-wise than he once was.
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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
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And a more balanced, mature, worldly-wise young man you would be hard pushed to find.
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At first she's quite immature and naïve but she thinks she's really worldly-wise.
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There was no superfluous flesh about him; he was tall and muscular, with well - knit limbs, broad shoulders, and a head altogether lacking in the humble or conciliatory 'droop' which all worldly-wise parsons cultivate for the benefit of their rich patrons.
God's Good Man
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He found elementary students were both worldly-wise and keen observers of the adults around them.
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But sharper than all these impressions rang the words of the worldly-wise Higbee: _ "She's hunting night and day for a rich husband; she tries for them as fast as they come; she'd rather marry a sub-treasury -- she'd marry me in a minute -- she'd marry_ YOU; _but if you were broke she'd have about as much use for you ....
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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Oxford, after all, is home not only to what is a generally worldly-wise collection of minds but also to numerous eco-friendly student bodies, Green councillors, leading academics and the Environmental Change Institute.
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Wouldn't you expect these people to be articulate, clean-cut, and worldly-wise?
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It also appeals to defeatists, cynics, and worldly-wise men who are not prepared to try to change the system.
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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
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It is perhaps the vast amount of travelling they have done to different parts of the world that has made this couple worldly-wise.
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Dwight, the worldly-wise American submarine commander, puts her right.
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Readers of this blog are, by definition, sophisticated and worldly-wise individuals who know full well that major film studios do not read unsolicited screenplays.
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Those who came to scoff remained to praise as allegedly worldly-wise hacks marvelled at the Queen's serenity and, according to one, her ‘dazzling smile’ and ‘engaging small talk’.
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Readers of this blog are, by definition, sophisticated and worldly-wise individuals who know full well that major film studios do not read unsolicited screenplays.
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Worldly-wise though she thought herself, Grace was innocent, even ingenuous, for seventeen.
GRACE
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For years we whined about being the supporting characters on television shows: the wacky neighbor, the snippy coworker, the world-weary yet worldly-wise florist, the dog walker, the minty banker.
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Ironically, the most fully-rounded woman in this picture is young Natalie Portman, playing a worldly-wise 13-year-old, who has a crush on Willie.
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Where East meets West, the old is new, the young are worldly-wise, the wilds are pristine, and the 20 th-century shadows of war are giving way to a hip and happening 21 st-century place to find peace.
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As ever, human happiness requires the skills of both the worldly-wise economist and the passionate scientist.
