How to Use sophomoric in a Sentence

sophomoric

adjective

• His behavior at the party was sophomoric.
• And the tone of his musings sometimes was, to be blunt, sophomoric.
  — Matt Viser, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Think of it as the opposite of a quality start, with a sophomoric twist.
  — Scott Allen, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• The gags are sophomoric and the overall story line is as pathetic as the concept.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2021
• Jones makes a sophomoric effort to dress the question up, but this is the eternal politics of cooties.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 27 Oct. 2019
• The sophomoric question—but no less vexing for that quality—is: Where did that stuff come from?
  — Percival Everett, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• The sophomoric question—but no less vexing for that quality—is: Where did that stuff come from?
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• The book is still a sophomoric mess, and the 17 songs, which are mostly either fast or rather less so, are lively but unvaried.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 26 July 2018
• But the effort can sometimes read as sophomoric, even silly.
  — Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• The sunglasses originally were set to sell for $69, but the coach pushed for the current price point of $67 as a cap-tip to the year he was born while dodging fits of sophomoric humor.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Unlike Jude, McKay has no real sense of humor, just sophomoric ridicule.
  — Armond White, National Review, 12 Jan. 2022
• Some friends of mine and I used to run a fake and idiotically sophomoric men’s magazine called Hugedisk.com.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2007
• This March, Jarecki will unveil his sophomore effort (never one to miss a chance for a laugh, Jarecki might well note that some of the humor in his second play will indeed be sophomoric).
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2017
• Was it Steph Curry's sophomoric squat after Durant's Game 3 dagger?
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
• And while White Elephants seem to encourage sophomoric American Pie humor, giving in to that temptation is unwise, to say the least.
  — Vogue, 15 Dec. 2017
• As metaphor, the film’s flying and flipping stunts over Yuma outdo Kubrick’s sophomoric fuel-pump copulation in Dr. Strangelove.
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 June 2022
• Realigning themselves with sophomoric virtues, the stars sell their souls in accommodation to the insensate new era.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 Oct. 2020
• For Martin, every bit of the work — yes, even sophomoric remarks about baby fat — still demands constant refining.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2022
• Otherwise, most of the attempts at character moments feel forced and sophomoric in a way that would probably make the average teenager groan.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2019
• After learning about Jimmy’s sophomoric attacks on Howard, Kim suggests new and even more juvenile pranks to Jimmy.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• But the trial’s depiction of the way that Albany operates — with bullying, back-room deals and sophomoric nicknames, has not been flattering.
  — Jesse McKinley and Vivian Wang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• This is just romanticizing a foreign country to denigrate your fellow citizens, and it’s a sophomoric view of the world.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 3 June 2021
• The story centers on the Bottom brothers (yes, their surname is key to a sophomoric joke or two), 16th-century playwrights who struggle to create a hit under the shadow of William Shakespeare, who’s adored like a rock god.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The town is filled with stereotypical athleisure-wearing moms whose conversations border on the sophomoric.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 5 June 2018
• Its recipe is simple: one part policy discussion, carried out with wonkish rigor; one part activism; plus a dash of sophomoric humor.
  — Eric Sullivan, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2018
• But they weren’t always helped by the staging, particularly when sophomoric swordplay was involved.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• In a locker room culture in which sarcasm often serves as a second language for adolescents, Brendan helped translate for his brother, whose sense of humor was less sophomoric than most teens.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2019
• There are laughs to be had here, yes, but your mileage will vary depending on your tolerance for sophomoric bathroom humor and gratuitous vulgarity.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Their double-digit discourtesies were sophomoric in tone but historic in nature: The middle finger predates the Middle Ages.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• Is being a sophomoric clown a prerequisite to being a baseball announcer/color guy on this network?
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021

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