worldly-wise
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See also: worldlywise
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worldly-wise (comparative more worldly-wise, superlative most worldly-wise)
- Experienced in the ways of the world; sophisticated and cosmopolitan.
- 2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic[1], →ISSN:
- I had a natural African American impulse to let this worldlywise middle-aged black woman's maternalism wash over me. And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.