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- adjective
superlative form ofworldly : mostworldly .
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Examples
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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.
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The worldliest natural historian of the 18th century was, oddly enough, never much of a traveler.
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Deep down, the worldliest among us know what's over the top even when they can't resist flogging the spillage.
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Deep down, the worldliest among us know what's over the top even when they can't resist flogging the spillage.
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Which brings us to an otherworldly event on that crossroads of the worldliest, the nexus of moneychangers and engineers called eBay.
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Which brings us to an otherworldly event on that crossroads of the worldliest, the nexus of moneychangers and engineers called eBay.
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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.
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Yet for no single moment did Evelyn think that she was the worldliest of the four nuns.
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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.
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