Meanings
plural unsophisticates
- An unsophisticated person.
In The New Yorker 80 years ago, Lou Gehrig was portrayed as an unsophisticate and a mama’s boy once rumored to have gone to the movies with a “red-cheeked German girl who wore a bunch of flowers in her hat.”
2009 September 11, Richard Sandomir, “The Iron Horse and the New Yorker Profile”, in New York Times
comparative more unsophisticate · superlative most unsophisticate
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