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
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
Drake is a social media sophisticate, a fine walker of the almost completely obliterated line between fandom and creation.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 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
Johannesburg had always been depicted as a city of dreams, a place where one could transform oneself from a poor peasant to a wealthy sophisticate, a city of danger and of opportunity.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
