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Sophisticate   /səfˈɪstəkˌeɪt/  /səfˈɪstəkət/   Listen
Sophisticate

noun
1.
A worldly-wise person.  Synonym: man of the world.
verb
(past & past part. sophisticated; pres. part. sophisticating)
1.
Make less natural or innocent.
2.
Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.  Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around.
3.
Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.  Synonyms: doctor, doctor up.
4.
Make more complex or refined.





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"Sophisticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... world, is to me the greatest miracle of all. If there had not been, at some time or other, true miracles, it had not been so easy to impose on the people by false. The alchemist would never go about to sophisticate metals to pass them off for true gold and silver, unless that such a thing was acknowledged as true gold and silver in ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... the explosions which are solemnly scolded as "one-sided" were simply meant to be one-sided, were mere laughing experiments in language. Like a woman, he saw the humour of his own prejudices, did not sophisticate them by logic, but deliberately exaggerated them by rhetoric. One tenth of his paradoxes would have made the fortune of a modern young man with gloves of an art yellow. He was as fond of nonsense as Mr. Max Beerbohm. ...
— Varied Types • G. K. Chesterton


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