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worldly-wise

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world·ly-wise (wûrldl-wz)
adj.
Experienced in the ways of the world.
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Adj.1.worldly-wise - experienced in and wise to the ways of the world
sophisticated - having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
worldly-wise
adjective experienced, knowing, worldly, sophisticated A more worldly-wise man would have seen through him at once.
innocent, naive, inexperienced, callow, unsophisticated, unworldly, ingenuous, jejune
Translations
worldly-wise [ˈwɜːldlɪˈwaɪz] ADJ → de mundo, que conoce mundo
worldly-wise
adj → weltklug
worldly-wise [ˌwɜːldlɪˈwaɪz] adj → di mondo
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If he had probed to the bottom of his vanity (as he sometimes nearly did) he would have found there the wish that his wife should be as worldly-wise and as eager to please as the married lady whose charms had held his fancy through two mildly agitated years; without, of course, any hint of the frailty which had so nearly marred that unhappy being's life, and had disarranged his own plans for a whole winter.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
It is a bustling, lively little town; not very picturesque on the whole, it is true, but there are many quaint nooks and corners to be found in it, nevertheless - standing arches in the shattered bridge of Time, over which our fancy travels back to the days when Marlow Manor owned Saxon Algar for its lord, ere conquering William seized it to give to Queen Matilda, ere it passed to the Earls of Warwick or to worldly-wise Lord Paget, the councillor of four successive sovereigns.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
This might--let it be repeated--have awakened some little vague mistrust in a man more worldly-wise than the Golden Dustman.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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