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worldly::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | blase |
| Derivation | worldliness |
the benefits of his worldly wisdom.
Examples of worldly
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He's gained a worldly perspective from his travels to Africa with Right To Play.
From the suntimes.com
These are the weird, other-worldly beings you admire from afar, not get to know.
From the chron.com
Did Paul go back to being a Pharisee to appeal to the worldly religious leaders?
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Stardust is good, but too much can make a liberal politician seem other-worldly.
From the economist.com
Mr Bush's tactics may be a little more worldly, but converts are not guaranteed.
From the economist.com
There, he met a brilliant and worldly bio-mathematician named Danielle Flinders.
From the npr.org
Two thirds of the way up a weathered face, Auburn hair frames worldly blue eyes.
From the thebeaveronline.co.uk
Chekhov was a renowned and worldly physician-writer nearing the end of his life.
From the time.com
In contrast, churches were symbols of not only spiritual but also worldly power.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"
- Blase: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
- (worldliness) sophistication: the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- (worldliness) concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs; "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him"
- World is a key concept in theology.
- An adjective that applies to Dasein's activity, because it is Dasein who is-in the world. Dasein's activity intrinsically involves a familiarity with the world and is in that sense worldly.
- Anyone who is not a Jehovah's Witness.
- Having to do with secular values.
