Example Sentences

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Still, with all its fake unsophistication, “Shucked” is what we’ve got, and in a Broadway musical season highlighted by an antisemitic lynching, a murderous barber and a dying 16-year-old, some amusing counterprogramming is probably healthy.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

“We’re realizing the relative unsophistication of calling something diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which doesn’t capture the full biological heterogeneity of that condition,” Blombery says.

From Nature • Mar. 24, 2020

But its apparent unsophistication is a feature, not a bug.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2012

I don’t think unsophistication is a good excuse.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 13, 2012

She had brought into this new world a charm of unsophistication, an ingenuous naïveté, such as only an untrammeled spirit nourished in an elemental civilization like that of primitive Simití could develop.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis