Sophisticating

Word SOPHISTICATING
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Definitions and meanings of "Sophisticating"

What do we mean by sophisticating?

To make less natural or innocent.

To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.

To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.

To make more complex or refined.

A person who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument. Later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic. Urban Dictionary

The opposite behavior of 98% of the population below age 21. Sophistication is a mix of knowing when a joke's over, caring somewhat about the consequences of your actions, talking about something of reasonable importance, having a good dose of common sense, not letting your immediate reactions control your life, knowing how much information is TOO much information, and not wearing wearing your jeans lower than your underwear. Urban Dictionary

-sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy. -change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition. -complexity, as in design or organization. -impairment or debasement, as of purity or genuineness. -the use of sophistry; a sophism, quibble, or fallacious argument. (Antonym -simplicity ) Urban Dictionary

Attempting to make an idiomatic idea or statement sound or appear intelligent. Urban Dictionary

One who is sophisticated. Urban Dictionary

The definition of sophisticated is actually knowing your head from your buttocks. It does not require having a brain, for jellyfish seem to get along just right with a minimal amount of sophisticatiton. Even the tiniest rock uses somewhat of an amount of sophistication just to sit quietly (unless thrown or something of the sort) throughout the day. Urban Dictionary

Sophisticated: An evening out in Tunbridge Wells, beginning with a comfortable meal folowed by a few quiet drinks and genteel mocking of the locals Urban Dictionary

Someone who disregards the truth in favor of looking smart. Urban Dictionary

Polluted cities - i.e. Beijing Urban Dictionary

To use large vocabulary and intellectual knowledge and phrases. For one to be sophisticated one must always refer to one as one individual who is capable of comprehending and translating different intellectual knowledge and terminology. The most important thing into being a sophisticated human of mankind is to always perform the act of wise hand gestures. This will show the people "I know what I'm talking about". Also, wear neutral and sometimes rather boring colors to come across to people that you are on of sophisticated intelligence and not to be messed with... by turtles. Urban Dictionary

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The word "sophisticating" in example sentences

He ought to be a thorough Judge of Colors, to know all their Properties, and common Tricks that are used in sophisticating Dyes of all sorts, not with an Intention of cheating his Customers, but to guard against the Imposition of those who would impose upon him in the Sale of Goods. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Christianity has been disfigured by the corruptions of schismatising followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and perverting the simple doctrines he taught … caus (ing) good men to reject the whole in disgust and view Jesus himself as an imposter. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I thought I was so alone in the great debate of the sociologists … in that obsession with “sophisticating” their subject and the object of their analysis … which was certainly a way of leaving many people out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You are sophisticating your most basic efficiency as a human being. ❋ Steven Barnes (2010)

Like Pullman, the Founding Father called them "superstitions" and "fabrications" added by people who had "an interest in sophisticating & perverting the simple doctrines [Jesus] taught by engrafting on them the mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties & obscuring them with jargon." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then came the “sophisticating” of brand value selling, and out - sourcing. ❋ Newmania (2006)

We're like out sophisticating ourselves, gee I'll vote not for the guy I really guy, but for the guy I think or woman that will win in November. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He said that Women Development Forum must be established here (who also announced for its establishment informally) to boost their existing skill by different ways like giving them more training, linkage their products to national and international market, sale points and sophisticating their existing skill and handicrafts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You could spend your life “sophisticating” numerical treatements of a simple Lorenz system only 3 ODE ! and be flabbergasted how difficult it is to only sort out the problems of convergence , error propagation and sensibility to non physical parameters like the time and space integration step . ❋ Unknown (2007)

But the look or the gesture explains things in a breath; they tell their message without ambiguity; unlike speech, they cannot stumble, by the way, on a reproach or an allusion that should steel your friend against the truth; and then they have a higher authority, for they are the direct expression of the heart, not yet transmitted through the unfaithful and sophisticating brain. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Among them we may occasionally see some man of deep conscientiousness, and subtile and refined understanding, who spends a life in sophisticating with an intellect which he cannot silence, and exhausts the resources of ingenuity in attempting to reconcile the promptings of his conscience and reason with orthodoxy, which yet he does not, perhaps, to the end succeed in doing. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Egypt is still a shining example of the fact that - given the appropriate political environment - a highly developed handicraft trade will usually be capable of creatively sophisticating its own traditional techniques through the introduction of new materials. ❋ Unknown (1986)

It is the area in which since the early 19th Century an ancient Islamic and almost static civilisation, which carried no political responsibilities and which received no political training, has been invaded by all the upsetting, sophisticating, sometimes corrupting forces of the West. ❋ Unknown (1959)

In these aspects, at least, our shores are still primitive; they still know the primal force of wind and waves: there is no sophisticating, no taming of these. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

These were coached, in the usual masterly manner, sophisticating and perverting truth. ❋ C. H. Thomas (N/A)

Shelley were always sophisticating about their verses; Keats sophisticated about nothing. ❋ George Paston (N/A)

England may be fairly assumed to be genuine; and certainly the respectable colourmen of the present day are not in the habit of sophisticating them. ❋ George Field (N/A)

[Jima] seems to think that simply [winning] is more important than [being right]. It should come as no surprise, then, that his arguments are those of a sophist. ❋ SquarePegIX (2007)

Sophistiated: "Hi, Jenna. It's great to hear from you again! Yes, I'd love to come over for dinner, thanks. 6:30 works perfectly. I'll see you there!" Unsophisticated. "Oh em gee. JENNA! Wow...like...WOW. I can so so not believe it's you, like, omigosh! Can I like...stop by or something? 'Cause my ex is in town, and he's SOOOOOOOOOO annoying. Like, [stalker-ish] annoying. It's sort of freaky -- hey, hello?! Like, are you still there?" Sophisticated e-mail: Ms. Thompson, I will not be in your 4th period history class today because of an illness I've contracted. Can you please send the homework assignment to me? Thanks, [Corina]. Unsophisticated e-mail: [ummmmmmmmm] hi [ms t] this is [corina] and im sick so liek i cant come to class and i need the hw k bai ❋ Just Somebody. (2007)

Quotes: "I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence." - Christopher Hampton "Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle." - [Norman Mailer] "Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as [the butler], or the man under the bed -- but never the husband)." - James [Thurber] ❋ MissMia (2010)

Pleats are set into [dress pants] in order to display the [sophistics] of [elegance]. ❋ JT The Dragon (2009)

[Classy] sophisticates like me use [big words] in our [sentences]. Did I say big? I meant polysyllabic. Polysyllabic! ❋ Diggity Monkeez (2005)

"The [young master] was very [sophisticated]." ❋ Samuchan (2015)

DOB took everyone out for a sophisticated evening. They rejected this, got drunk on many shots from Weatherspoons, chased all the people from New Beacon around trying to [smash box]. Lauara let them all off because it doesn't count if it happens on a night out, DOB brushed any accusations of old age off like a solid turd and tried to smash a teenager. NAM and Clayton decided to double team some granny from the kebab shop, and Clayton now has to wear an eyepatch due to friendly fire [from NAM] who has had too many [protien] shakes. Sophisticated - we know the real meaning! ❋ DOB123 (2011)

[Hillary Clinton] is a sophist because she went to [law school] and didn't become a [lawyer]. ❋ Ereck Flowers (2016)

[Beijing] hit [755] on the air quality [index], that place has hella sophistication. ❋ Baller6969 (2013)

*Hand gestured begin* thy turtles are thus sophisticated mortals in thy [spherical] [orbiting] [planetary] object in which we inhabit in the name "earth". ❋ Swaggie Turtle (2013)

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