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
And, like that earlier film, this movie is less about the exploits of an adorable moppet and his worldly-wise older relative than the brother-sister relationship that hovers just around the edges.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
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
My long tramp through the mud left me tuckered out and just too worldly-wise to go along with the teen scene.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
