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  • adjective superlative form of worldly: most worldly.

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Examples

  • Sales have grown at the Thousand Oaks, Calif., outfit by more than 60\%, and the coming fourth quarter is usually the year's busiest period, she says. the winner of the "worldliest" category in the 2007 StartupNation Home-Based 100 competition, is a case study in what America's home-based businesses are doing to survive in a tough environment.

    Bullish Blog

  • The worldliest natural historian of the 18th century was, oddly enough, never much of a traveler.

    Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net

  • Deep down, the worldliest among us know what's over the top even when they can't resist flogging the spillage.

    Archive 2007-05-01

  • Deep down, the worldliest among us know what's over the top even when they can't resist flogging the spillage.

    To her who has, more will be given...

  • Which brings us to an otherworldly event on that crossroads of the worldliest, the nexus of moneychangers and engineers called eBay.

    Oddity On Whitman's EBay: Auctioning Souls

  • Which brings us to an otherworldly event on that crossroads of the worldliest, the nexus of moneychangers and engineers called eBay.

    Faces Of The Week: Mar. 6-10, 2006

  • One of the sturdiest, worldliest gentlemen of seventeenth-century England, a man of wealth, power, and fame, Samuel Pepys, discourses in

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  • The stupidest man in existence, working day by day at the worldliest work, has the better of us in this, that he is weighted, so to speak, and cannot flutter to and fro with every breeze that blows.

    The Wings of Icarus

  • Yet for no single moment did Evelyn think that she was the worldliest of the four nuns.

    Evelyn Innes

  • Mrs. Makely, I admit, without further dispute, that the most unworldly woman is worldlier than the worldliest man; and that in all practical matters we fade into dreamers and doctrinaires beside you.

    A Traveler from Altruria: Romance

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