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How to use worldly-wise in a sentence
"You are not very worldly wise, Allan," said his sister with the slightest tinge of contempt in her voice.
Marion Arleigh's Penance | Charlotte M. BraemeIn a moment all her good resolutions, all the worldly wise advice of Miss Briggs, all her dullness and despair were forgotten.
December Love | Robert HichensThat this behaviour was not worldly-wise is true enough, but I know of no commandment enjoining us to be worldly-wise.
Pioneers of Science | Oliver Lodge
Had he been worldly-wise, he would certainly have kept silent and unobtrusive till he had leave to go away again.
Pioneers of Science | Oliver LodgeThey that gave such information to the Queen, spoke as worldly wise men, and as things appeared to have been.
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