sophisticate
noun
a sophisticated person.
sophisticating
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present participleof sophisticate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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But the time is short; there is none to waste on idle questionings, none to spend on sophisticating conscience—time only for deciding as conscience bids.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
Next is a woe on those who play fast and loose with plain morality, sophisticating conscience, and sapping the foundations of law.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren
Is it possible the Wringhims, and the sophisticating wretch who is in conjunction with them, the mother of my late beautiful and amiable young master, can have effected his destruction?
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
It does so partly by sophisticating it—the sensibility to right and wrong being weakened by every evil act, as a cold in the head takes away the sense of smell.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren
Byron and Shelley were always sophisticating about their verses; Keats sophisticated about nothing.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston
