sophisticate

An otherwise urban-dwelling sophisticate, he cultivated a rustic demeanor for France’s benefit, uncharacteristically donning a coonskin hat and simple clothes to impress cosseted aristocrats and ordinary Parisians alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

It pulls people in on the promise of speaking effortless French in a Parisian bakery, on being a sophisticate with the drive to learn another language.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023

With a virgin piña colada in my hand, I was no longer a silly little girl in a Laura Ashley dress, but a budding sophisticate sipping a fancy cocktail with maraschino cherry-stained red lips.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

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

And then, to make matters worse, I heard my mother saying to Waverly: “True, cannot teach style. June not sophisticate like you. Must be born this way.”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

There’s no quiz show in “Age of Vice,” but there is a poor boy who slides through a backdoor into a demimonde of degraded sophisticates.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

But her honest voice and honest cooking caused Manhattan and Brooklyn sophisticates to clamor for her beautifully prepared Southern food.

From Salon ● May 25, 2022

Lincoln emerges as a folksy, aphorism-spouting backwoods lawyer whose virtuosic political skills outstrip those of all the sophisticates around him.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2020

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

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020

He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether an unusual genetic system shared by ants, bees and wasps helped drive one of nature's most sophisticated forms of social organization: eusociality.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

This sophisticated network is what can get the goods you order to your doorstop in hours, and it provides flexibility for workers who have irregular schedules such as college students and home caretakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“As dumb and playful and crazy as it is, it has amazing structure,” says Shawkat of the story, which lured her both as a comedy and as something more sophisticated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Systematic strategies, employed by big hedge funds and some institutional managers, use sophisticated algorithms and data inputs to make investing decisions.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

It was the year 2000, and virtually no other doctor or clinic in Haiti was treating poor patients with the most sophisticated antiretroviral drugs available on the market.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Thus all sin is the overbearing of reason or the sophisticating of reason by passion.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren

These were coached, in the usual masterly manner, sophisticating and perverting truth.

From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas

Sophisticā′tion, act of sophisticating, adulterating, or injuring by mixture; Sophis′ticātor, one who sophisticates or adulterates; Sophis′ticism, the philosophy or the methods of the sophists; Soph′istress, a she-sophist; Soph′istry, specious but fallacious reasoning.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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

We can in part; but our Lord has taught us in this prayer that it is not to be done by denying or sophisticating facts.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren