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unsophisticated

uhn suh fi sti kay tid

  • s  not wise in the ways of the world
    either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver
  • s  lacking complexity
    an unsophisticated machine
  • s  awkwardly simple and provincial
    the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists

  • Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber .
  • He is exuberantly gregarious, unsophisticated and, on the surface at least, totally untempera-mental.
  • That apparently wasn't enough to discourage Watson, who like too many other members of Congress is, to put it kindly, scientifically unsophisticated.
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  • Kenneth Turan in Los Angeles Times (blog)
    (The Times' Kenneth Turan noted "Airbender's" "determinedly unsophisticated dialogue" and said that "nothing about the film's functional visual effects makes a major impression."
  • William Galvin in Reuters
    Our investigation showed that Securities America ignored their own due diligence analysts and sold these notes to unsophisticated investors without telling them the risks involved,Galvin said in a statement. "People invested their life...
  • Glenn in The Public Record
    The FBI believed that these techniques were not getting actionable information, that they were unsophisticated and unproductive,said Glenn Fine, the DOJ's inspector general, in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "They...

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