Worldly in a sentence as an adjective

I mean the guy no harm, but so much of what he says strikes me as incredibly back-worldly.

At the time I was going through a youthful phase of freeing myself from worldly attachment.

I can't blame them, but our generation's discourse needs to be about more than worldly success.

Is pg supposed to give up all his worldly goals and possessions and live as some sort of equality monk?

The story behind the aphorism goes like this:A worldly wise frog visits his friend, a frog in a well.

It's a game with arbitrary rules so I can't easily use my worldly experience biases to solve the problem.

Ending up homeless does not mean you are automatically stripped of all worldly possessions.

People like to say this, maybe believing it fulfills some deep-seated need for cynicism, or makes the speaker feel wise and worldly.

You're worldly accomplishments will never be able to satisfy that discontentment, as the two areas are unrelated.

All of which makes me wonder what objective metrics there could be for 'more worldly and cognizant of other cultures' and what they would show over the past 3 or 4 decades in Japan?

Sincerity, humility, innocence tend to achieve more than cynicism and jaded worldly wisdom.

Okay, my worldly experience only goes so far, but I sat in on calibration meetings and promotion committee meetings and so on, and I was absolutely shocked at how fair and objective people were.

Clearly bleach can't be used as an antiobitic but I use it to illustrate the point that a evolutionary-unlikely antibiotic mechanism would be worldly profound.

You should do because it's great:* No queues at the bar* lots of unique characters - many of whole will still be sober enough to pass their worldly insight onto you* public transport will still be running by the time you stumble out of the pub again.

After the revelations about spying on other G8 attendees, a portion of posters on HN and elsewhere proved their worldly, jaded cynicism and acceptance of the status quo with posts saying "of course they do" and "everyone knows that" and "no news here".

But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!It also surprises me that as someone who was a "devoted Christian for 25 years" who would at least have some Biblical knowledge, Ryan doesn't at least acknowledge the inherent spiritual incompleteness of placing his hope in worldly and material things - number six on his list being the exception.

Worldly definitions

adjective

characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

See also: secular temporal

adjective

very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"

See also: blase