How to Use unsophisticated in a Sentence

unsophisticated

adjective

• She was innocent and unsophisticated when she left for college.
• The image of farangs with unsophisticated palates is out of date, Mr. Narupon said.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• The idea of a kid, unsophisticated, from the Midwest, thrust into the awesome Ivy League.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
• The sophisticated and the unsophisticated alike, the rich and the poor, seemed in a trance, spellbound.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
• There isn’t much steering feedback, and the suspension—trailing arms at the front and swing axles at the rear, borrowed from the Beetle—feels unsophisticated.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
• Initially clunky and unsophisticated, e-pulltabs were, in fact, slow to catch on.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Their restaurants were unsophisticated, their kitchens filthy and their chefs rude—and often drunk.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• For all its eyebrow-raising effect on the conflict, the Tochka is an old, unsophisticated weapon.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• If there's too much color, the space becomes unsophisticated looking; more like a child's room.
  — Michele Lerner, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• That is, the unsophisticated you, deprived of all glamorous aides.
  — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
• To speak up as a pro-life woman means your peers and professors will cast you off as an unsophisticated religious zealot.
  — Myles McKnight, National Review, 13 Feb. 2022
• These people have been at it in very blunt and not unsophisticated ways of trying to get this piece of legislation repealed.
  — Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
• The game takes players through a story about piloting a submarine with unsophisticated tech through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• There seemed something damningly Irish about them, which is to say parochial and unsophisticated.
  — Megan Nolan, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2024
• The original film featured Martin and Caine, one unsophisticated and the other suave, scamming their way across the French Riviera.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• Unsophisticated drones, such as the ones used by North Korea, have steadily become an important issue for U.S. troops around the world.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• The real issue is that the burden of doing the right thing has been shifted entirely to an unsophisticated consumer.
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• The young YouTubers are mostly stylish, contrary to the stereotype of North Korean refugees as being rough and unsophisticated.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Rustic, yes, but not unsophisticated: The area is home to plenty of designer shops and fine-dining restaurants.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2017
• The patch pocket—which once marked the laboring classes as unsophisticated and unfashionable—is far more useful than one sized for a watch, a ticket, or a coin.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• The better option is to try and outsmart them, sneaking away silently so as not to trip their unsophisticated echolocating alarms.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023
• Most of the sellers appeared to be unsophisticated and were only offering a few doses each.
  — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2021
• An unsophisticated rigid-axle rear suspension and soft damping result in the best boulevard ride but the most flaccid handling.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• Before the interview aired, royal insiders hoped the public would find a Diana who was unsophisticated, evil and petty — roughly along the lines of their whispers to the tabloids.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2021
• Gold is a pretty but useless metal sold by those preying on the fears of unsophisticated financial minds.
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Savvy and unsophisticated investors alike have piled into the trade, with some taking on huge positions.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2020
• Because this is a fallen world, there will always be a layer of opportunistic sleaze that sees young, unsophisticated players as a ticket to the top.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2018
• Also, in some countries, such as France, splitting the bill is considered to be unsophisticated.
  — Shivani Vora, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• But despite these successes, Moscow’s land-war doctrine is still unsophisticated.
  — Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2024
• In a separate interview, Reiners expressed his doubts and concerns that unsophisticated consumers are vulnerable to crypto scams.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024