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
