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What does worldly-wise mean?

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Adjective
  1. experienced in the ways of the world; sophisticated and cosmopolitan
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The title of her book was a nickname bestowed by her more worldly-wise classmates.
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?
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.
Their recovery periods are a lot quicker and they are a lot more mature and worldly-wise.
It is perhaps the vast amount of travelling they have done to different parts of the world that has made this couple worldly-wise.

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