How to Use unsophisticated in a Sentence

unsophisticated

adjective
  • She was innocent and unsophisticated when she left for college.
  • Their restaurants were unsophisticated, their kitchens filthy and their chefs rude—and often drunk.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Initially clunky and unsophisticated, e-pulltabs were, in fact, slow to catch on.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • Kate Rockwell is sweet and wide-eyed as the kind but unsophisticated Jane.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • If there's too much color, the space becomes unsophisticated looking; more like a child's room.
    — Michele Lerner, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • But experts have been surprised at just how unsophisticated that campaign has been.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2022
  • 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
  • That is, the unsophisticated you, deprived of all glamorous aides.
    — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Rock and pop are often unsophisticated, or downright dumb.
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • These people have been at it in very blunt and not unsophisticated ways of trying to get this piece of legislation repealed.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
  • Everyone, even the most unsophisticated news consumer, can kind of tell.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • There seemed something damningly Irish about them, which is to say parochial and unsophisticated.
    — Megan Nolan, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Savvy and unsophisticated investors alike have piled into the trade, with some taking on huge positions.
    — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Gale was deemed old-fashioned and her focus on small-town Midwestern life was thought to be unsophisticated.
    — Deborah Williams july 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
  • 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
  • The sophisticated and the unsophisticated alike, the rich and the poor, seemed in a trance, spellbound.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
  • For all its eyebrow-raising effect on the conflict, the Tochka is an old, unsophisticated weapon.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • As share values, which trade for pennies, rise rapidly, salesmen pitch the stocks to unsophisticated investors.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Most of the sellers appeared to be unsophisticated and were only offering a few doses each.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Since then, officials have also warned that even unsophisticated drones can pose serious risks.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But the grammar movies and television use to dramatize such crimes remains by and large unsophisticated.
    — Andy Crump, Time, 26 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 authors found that reward cards induce over-borrowing, and that this effect is confined to unsophisticated users.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Also, in some countries, such as France, splitting the bill is considered to be unsophisticated.
    — Shivani Vora, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
  • But the rise of scientific skepticism made the genre seem old-fashioned and unsophisticated.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The idea of a kid, unsophisticated, from the Midwest, thrust into the awesome Ivy League.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
  • 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

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