sophisticate
Example Sentences
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He was an everyday guy who had fallen in love, not a highbrow sophisticate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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
He is a sophisticate, a weekend denizen of New York’s theater district, a clotheshorse.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
