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

Compared with the tense drama surrounding Zara and Bakhtiar, what happens to the filmmaker seems at first like comic relief — a fish-out-of-water caper about a big-city sophisticate snagged by rustic brambles.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 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

When Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony was new, it seemed to the sophisticates to have far less going for it than does Márquez’s concerto.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2021

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

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

Features such as stingers, specialized nesting behaviors and other biological traits may have created conditions that made cooperation more advantageous and helped sophisticated insect societies emerge again and again.

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

"I thought I was such a sophisticated older man," he said.

From BBC ● 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

In the early twentieth century, scientists will invent more sophisticated and less dangerous ways to "see" brain activity.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Is it possible the Wringhims, and the sophisticating wretch who is in conjunction with them, the mother of my late beautiful and amiable young master, can have effected his destruction?

From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

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

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

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

As a rule, such colours when manufactured in England may be fairly assumed to be genuine; and certainly the respectable colourmen of the present day are not in the habit of sophisticating them.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter