'worldly knowledge' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to knowledge gained through the experiences of living in the world, or knowledge that is generally accepted as true and is based on experience. For example: "The professor's worldly knowledge was passed down to his students through his lectures."
For all their worldly knowledge, the songs had a heart.
Fortunately, the British-born Irvine, who has lived in the United States for 28 years, has worldly knowledge to draw upon.
The Modern Orthodox movement believes in the concept of Torah Umaddah -- literally "Torah and worldly knowledge," but more broadly, the value of engaging with the larger society.
5 David Platt Well connected and with a player's worldly knowledge of the game (well, he'd been abroad), Platty seemed destined for management.
FINKELSTEIN--Seymour. Handsome, elegant, socially graceful---all were attracted to you and were rewarded by your self-effacing charm, intelligence and worldly knowledge.
I found the lovely ruins of Persepolis desecrated by a vulgar group of pavilions left over from the Shah's anniversary celebrations". How could a man of Healey's worldly knowledge not have made the obvious connection?
For all their worldly (otherworldly?) knowledge and acclimation to interplanetary travel, Bud's new classmates and schoolmasters are fearfully ignorant of one specific planet in the galaxy, paranoiacally presuming its inhabitants to be vicious predators.
The week Polykoff first met him, she was dazzled by his worldly sophistication, his knowledge of out-of-the-way places in Europe, his exquisite taste in fine food and wine.
For all the worldly and institutional knowledge Duke employees create and share, they also have curiosity for activities outside of efforts on campus.
"Global Encounters, Earthly Knowledges, Worldly Selves". In L'inde Des Lumières: Discours, Histoire, Savoiurs (XVIIe-XIXe Siècle): India and Enlightenment, Discourse, History, Knowledge (17th-19th Cedited), edited by Marie Fourcade and Ines Zupanov.
Hemming, a medieval monastic writer from Worcester Priory, wrote of Æthelwig that he "surpassed everyone by his intelligence, his shrewdness and his knowledge of worldly law".
