sophisticate

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

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

She worked hard to sophisticate him, getting him out of his hideous cheap blue suits and into respectable tweeds, refining his Midwestern accent.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021

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

Quirky sophisticates know a restaurant's specialties, including the choices that aren't listed on the menu.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022

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

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020

In the fickle calculus of what defines fashionable, New Yorkers have always been a constant, the seen-it-all sophisticates whose idea of normalcy includes riding an impossibly overcrowded subway and inhabiting a ridiculously overpriced apartment.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

Three years among the sophisticates of Girton had not provided her with the courage to confront him.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Mutual funds have historically charged much lower fees than private funds reserved for sophisticated investors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

In octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, ancient rearrangements of the genome may have helped establish new regulatory networks that contributed to the development of their exceptionally sophisticated nervous systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Wolfingers bought a dilapidated feedlot in 2010, which they have turned into a sophisticated operation with 5,500 cattle.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Given the jet drones’ high speeds, the new interceptors will require sophisticated technologies that may be hard to procure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

By 36 BCE they had developed the concept of zero and sophisticated calendar systems.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

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

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

Next is a woe on those who play fast and loose with plain morality, sophisticating conscience, and sapping the foundations of law.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren

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