Competent and Worldly

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Competent adjective - Having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance.

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Worldly and competent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Worldly" instead an adjective "Competent".

Worldly adjective - Having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience.

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Competent and worldly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Competent" instead an adjective "Worldly".

Nearby Words: world, worldling

By the '60s, Chop-Chop was recognizably human, and by the '80s, he was a competent equal member of the team in the Evanier/Spiegle run, and a worldly, sophisticated, and articulate character going by the name Weng Chan in Howard Chaykin's re-tooling of the series.

Source: Rescued From The Scrappy Heap / Comic Books
He is shown to be a competent fighter, but he loses a duel in mere seconds to Malatesta (granted, Quevedo was drunken at the time, but the books precisely establish him as a borderline Drunken Master with the sword) and is infinitely less worldly in his interactions with the Court.

Source: Series / Alatriste

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