the ways of the world

Noun

Meaning

the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen

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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world... Erica Jong

This is truly how I remember the ways of the world. Those words I cursed him with make a verse, and that verse could be sung to music. Valmiki

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look. Walter Kaufmann

the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world Source: Internet

she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil Source: Internet

he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world Source: Internet

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