worldly-wise

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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

McGuane’s small-time lawyers and bank managers, his car dealers and crooks and confirmed bachelors, are more worldly-wise — and consequently more world-weary — than Taylor’s Memphis society boys.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2018

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