unsophisticated

Example Sentences

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The song's music video proved too much for a group of "concerned" public figures in Cyprus, who called it "unsophisticated" and "insulting to Cypriot history, traditions and aesthetics".

From BBC • May 8, 2026

This isn’t really about sophisticated firms being punished by unsophisticated ones, although there’s some of that.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Everything fell: oil prices, the dollar, even gold, because investors were shocked by how unsophisticated and draconian the policy was.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Bets were so heavily in favor of the Seahawks that he started putting money down on the Patriots, hoping to build an edge over unsophisticated bettors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

He did time for that, something neither he nor Mommy ever told us about, though I always wondered how a guy who seemed so unsophisticated could be so clever at checkers.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride