worldliness
Example Sentences
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Worldliness can sometimes come instinctively to child actors, but Moretz also has self-awareness beyond her years, as well as the savvy to know what to do with it.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2019
Worldliness wasn’t what you bought and how often you partied.
From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2015
Worldliness wars upon the sentiment of family, and I know of no strife more impassioned.
From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise
Worldliness means attachment to things as they are—to the ways of society, to the excitements, the pleasures, the profits, of the present.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
Worldliness, sensuality, and devilism are things helped forward by their gibberish.
From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George
Vocabulary lists containing worldliness
Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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"The Fallacy of Success" by G.K. Chesterton
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A Long Way from Chicago
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