worldly-wise

Example Sentences

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Bellamy version 2.0 may well be more worldly-wise, more focused, more able to channel the passion for the game and his country that has always run deep.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024

I loved Ferrell first and foremost because she looked and sounded like my people — red-haired and rotund, but worldly-wise and dry rather than jolly.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2020

“I know,” rumbles Pacino, leaning in and turning worldly-wise.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2019

He can also be as worldly-wise as La Rochefoucauld: “It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2019

Theo Theodorakis and Doug Hoo, older and more worldly-wise, exchanged winks but stayed to hear the rest of the story.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin