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- adjective
comparative form ofworldly : moreworldly
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Examples
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These are odd musical times we live in that grow weirder as the Web grows worldlier and wider.
Rediscover How to Discover Music Kevin Sintumuang 2011
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I've long been a secret fan of those day-glo curling stones which spend all day drying out under chip shop heat lamps, cheek by jowl with the savs and cheese pies, but I really fell in love with the fish cake when a far worldlier boyfriend whisked me off to lunch at Le Caprice for my 18th birthday.
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I've long been a secret fan of those day-glo curling stones which spend all day drying out under chip shop heat lamps, cheek by jowl with the savs and cheese pies, but I really fell in love with the fish cake when a far worldlier boyfriend whisked me off to lunch at Le Caprice for my 18th birthday.
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As much as I wanted to leave my smaller, earlier self behind, it was she—and not the worldlier and “wiser” person I was to become—who had gotten it so right.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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As much as I wanted to leave my smaller, earlier self behind, it was she—and not the worldlier and “wiser” person I was to become—who had gotten it so right.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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She is much worldlier and finds the boy, Alan, to be quite fascinating and sexy in his own innocent way.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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Instead of the mullah, growling texts out of a Quran on his lap, the Orakzai Pathan sat and sunned himself in the cave mouth, emitting worldlier wisdom unadulterated with divinity.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Typically, these women emerged from school worldlier than their fathers, brothers, and, maybe most important, their husbands, a change that had no small impact upon how the sexes related to one another within their communities.
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Wealthier and worldlier Koreans demanded greater rights and freedoms.
The Legacies of Kim Dae-jung Chung Min Lee 2009
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I hope that voters in Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin prove themselves to be worldlier and wiser than the yokels who embraced her here in New York.
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