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How to use worldly-wise in a sentence

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And a more balanced, mature, worldly-wise young man you would be hard pushed to find.
It is perhaps the vast amount of travelling they have done to different parts of the world that has made this couple worldly-wise.
He found elementary students were both worldly-wise and keen observers of the adults around them.
These guards were surely worldly-wise and shrewd, but they were clearly not educated to the same degree as the scribes and Pharisees.
But because he wrote in a plain style and assumed this worldly-wise tone, he's quite out of fashion.
It also appeals to defeatists, cynics, and worldly-wise men who are not prepared to try to change the system.
As ever, human happiness requires the skills of both the worldly-wise economist and the passionate scientist.
Wouldn't you expect these people to be articulate, clean-cut, and worldly-wise?
Their recovery periods are a lot quicker and they are a lot more mature and worldly-wise.
Ironically, the most fully-rounded woman in this picture is young Natalie Portman, playing a worldly-wise 13-year-old, who has a crush on Willie.
Dwight, the worldly-wise American submarine commander, puts her right.
This sounds worldly-wise and realistic — but it's totally untrue as an empirical matter.
But the more worldly-wise among them are conscious of the deeper problem posed.
But otherwise he was sweet, kind and considerate, surprisingly worldly-wise and also very funny.
The title of her book was a nickname bestowed by her more worldly-wise classmates.
They show others laughing at the hero too, and those worldly-wise mockers hardly appeal.
To be sure, many worldly-wise, professedly neutral Washington types will read this book as the self-serving defense of a wounded partisan.
His left foot can still carve routes through opposition defences and, if some of his speed has gone, then he is also more worldly-wise than he once was.
We need to be more worldly-wise and for referees to be more strict.
Readers of this blog are, by definition, sophisticated and worldly-wise individuals who know full well that major film studios do not read unsolicited screenplays.
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She was energetic by nature, selfish by philosophy, clever and worldly-wise by training.
They were all dirty and ragged, and the faces of many were old and worldly-wise.
Most of these worldly-wise counsels were not given directly to Jennie.
She was an eminently good woman, but very far from worldly-wise.
Mr. Lucas might be worldly-wise, but here I knew better than he.
Johnny seemed much more expert and worldly-wise than either of us.
Behind that worldly-wise, satirical mask was she mocking at him?
Percolation is a slow process in the hard head of the worldly-wise.
I understand that today's 16s are more worldly-wise than when I last swung a hockey stick, but isn't acupboard assignation pretty self-explanatory?
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