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Sophisticate   /səfˈɪstəkˌeɪt/  /səfˈɪstəkət/   Listen
Sophisticate

noun
1.
A worldly-wise person.  Synonym: man of the world.






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"Sophisticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Sophisticate" :   elaborate, train, slicker, adulterate, convolute, cultivate, grownup, educate, stretch, refer, rarify, denote, refine, school, sophistication, cosmopolitan, debase, civilize, adult, man of the world, dilute, load, complicate, civilise, cosmopolite



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