worldling

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They despise me as a worldling, and I don't like being despised."

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  1. noun One who is absorbed by worldly pursuits and pleasures.

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  • The troubles and griefs of life do not distress you as they do the poor worldling, who looks only to the enjoyments of this life for comfort. —  Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
  • It is only pathetic to a worldling--worldlings like us. —  Lodusky
  • How fallen we must be to find a life desolate because it has only nature for a companion She stopped with an idle laugh, waiting for an ironical reply from the "worldling" at her feet; but he remained silent, still looking upward at the clear, deep blue As she glanced toward him she saw something lying upon the grass between them, and bent to pick it up. —  Lodusky
  • As for your worldling, glutton, and coquette, though, doubtless, being such, they may have their little foibles--as who has not?--yet not one of the three can be reproached with that awful sin of shunning society; awful I call it, for not seldom it presupposes a still darker thing than itself--remorse Remorse drives man away from man? —  The Confidence-Man
  • But a worldling, and still more, an unfaithful Christian, just helps people to forget there is such a Being, and makes them think either that religion is a sham, or that they may safely go on despising it. —  The Wide, Wide World
 

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/ˈwərldlɪŋ/
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