Definition of worldly-minded in US English:
worldly-minded
adjectiveˌwərldlēˈmīndədˌwərldlēˈmīndəd
Intent on worldly things.
Example sentencesExamples
- The one is the sin of the worldly-minded rich man, and the other is the sin of the worldly-minded poor man.
- It is the worldly-minded who overlook their own major faults but exploit even the minutest shortcoming in the other; such ones often make a mountain out of even a small word spoken by the other.
- The uninstructed worldly-minded man sees others dying around him but through intoxication with the pride of life he acts as if he were immortal.
- But the situation is radically altered when the worldly-minded man who is oriented to external factors and has lost his religious beliefs appears en masse, as is the case today.
- The first may be called an error of worldly-minded men, the other an error of mistaken religionists.
- The worldly-minded persons work with the lower or the impure mind.
- Similarly, the worldly-minded do not care for anything else except a talk about worldly things.