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

“The market for these stocks is unsophisticated retail investors. There are no institutions buying these things,” Ritter said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

Although they came from a simple unsophisticated small-town family, both of them, quite independently of one another, developed a powerful interest in beautiful things.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl