Definition of "worldly-wise" []

• Experienced in the ways of the world. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I couldn't tell if they were supposed to be consciously playing the naifs or not; everyone had at least hit their mid-twenties — and obviously thought of themselves as “worldly-wise” types to no small degree — so I wasn't quite sure how to take this."
• "Upon their return from the wilderness, our young vagrants are transformed or reformed into worldly-wise Westerners."
• "He went to a two-year trade school instead of high school, but I always thought of him as very worldly-wise and intelligent."