worldly-wise

• worldlywise, worldly wise

worldly-wise (comparative more worldly-wise, superlative most worldly-wise)

1. Experienced in the ways of the world; sophisticated and cosmopolitan.
   • 2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic‎, →ISSN:

     I had a natural African American impulse to let this worldlywise middle-aged black woman's maternalism wash over me. And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.