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oversophisticated

  • a word derived from sophisticated.
    sophisticated
    adjective
    (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive.

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Like the oversophisticated Hellenists in Cavafy’s poem, they have been secretly waiting for the barbarians all their lives.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015

This urge has, it turns out, resulted in a series of cunning traps laid for the oversophisticated.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2013

He would build squadrons of nimble F-16 jet fighters instead of expensive, oversophisticated F-18s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also his sense of beauty is oversophisticated and wants originality.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

Perhaps Josh's more than half-right and I'm oversophisticated.

From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips