sophisticate

He was an everyday guy who had fallen in love, not a highbrow sophisticate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

The late British author was a sophisticate with an eye for irony, influenced in large part by Monty Python’s random absurdities, P.G.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023

Those who know Lee only as his Gi-hun character would barely recognize the dapper sophisticate sitting with excellent posture in a small greenroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

But the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum suggests in its presentations that J.F.K. was not a cultural sophisticate but rather a person who preferred Broadway show tunes over Beethoven.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2020

At school he was Toby the cool-cat sophisticate; and now, suddenly, he was Toby, the grief-stricken ancient Egyptian.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Quirky sophisticates know a restaurant's specialties, including the choices that aren't listed on the menu.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022

But Phyllis was smart enough to nab him; they are now wealthy, unhappy sophisticates.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021

They moved to a small town, but they thought of themselves as cultural sophisticates, intelligent and liberal.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020

In the fickle calculus of what defines fashionable, New Yorkers have always been a constant, the seen-it-all sophisticates whose idea of normalcy includes riding an impossibly overcrowded subway and inhabiting a ridiculously overpriced apartment.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

We stood out among these city sophisticates in their sturdy lace-up shoes or good-looking pumps.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

But they’re also in a situation where the investing public, including sophisticated venture capitalists, interpret their creations as potential cash machines, worth maybe $2 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I presume these are sophisticated investors taking a profit.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ukraine is understandably cagey about how it goes about confronting this increasingly sophisticated threat, but electronic methods to disrupt the drones' connectivity are high on the list.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Computer simulations, however, hinted that the structures could possess far more sophisticated magnetic properties.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Mehrdad Sanjideh is a short man with a charming and sophisticated personality.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

But the time is short; there is none to waste on idle questionings, none to spend on sophisticating conscience—time only for deciding as conscience bids.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

Next is a woe on those who play fast and loose with plain morality, sophisticating conscience, and sapping the foundations of law.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren

Nothing comes to him, not spoiled by the sophisticating medium of moral uses.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

In these aspects, at least, our shores are still primitive; they still know the primal force of wind and waves: there is no sophisticating, no taming of these.

From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

It does so partly by sophisticating it—the sensibility to right and wrong being weakened by every evil act, as a cold in the head takes away the sense of smell.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren