worldly-wise

adj

adj

Etymology Compare the synonym worldwise, which has cognates in various West-Germanic languages.

Experienced in the ways of the world; sophisticated and cosmopolitan.

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.2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:

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