How To Use Unsophisticated In A Sentence

We don't easily imagine anymore a naive, unsophisticated 14-year-old without the resources or experience to go it alone or see a way out of current circumstances.
His efforts to portray himself as unsophisticated and ignorant of legal matters were not consistent with the record.
either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver
This is OK for the sophisticated user, but tough on the unsophisticated.
If so why was it flying at an altitude at which it could be an easy target for the insurgents’ relatively unsophisticated weapons?

Max is unsophisticated, uncouth, rough and tough - but his heart is in the right place.
I will continue to not know such-and-such if I'm treated like an ignorant, unsophisticated fool.
While his work, in its seductiveness, might appeal to unsophisticated tastes, there is nothing unsophisticated about the paintings themselves.
It was music of a rather crude kind which unsophisticated audiences enjoyed listening to.
Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Jesus' use of parables also shows us that stories are not just for children or the unsophisticated.
Many of the young people are quite untravelled and unsophisticated, and have very limited horizons.
A single strand of simple, unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.
Thanks for disabusing us of our unsophisticated illusions, Mr. Brooks.
It was music of a rather crude kind which unsophisticated audiences enjoyed listening to.
It was music of a rather crude kind which unsophisticated audiences enjoyed listening to.
Maybe this venue is busier in the evenings or is attractive to families with hearty unsophisticated appetites.
Its size, remoteness, tropical location, and late development made for a raw, vigorous, unsophisticated version of the Australian experience.
Is this a question of ignorance on the part of the media, unsophisticated reporting, or is it a question of letting personal antipathy and personal notions seep into the coverage?
And in legislative circles, MMA fans are considered to be the same unsophisticated, backwood redneck types as NASCAR fans. Would You Buy a Bullet From This Man?
To observe that something precious has been lost, covered over, and denied is regarded as dreadfully unsophisticated.
Certainly there are commercially available recognition units which can be plugged into home computers but they are very unsophisticated.
The student who enters grad school intent on becoming a traditional humanist is the student who will be labelled as hopelessly unsophisticated by her peers and her professors.
I have the blandest of taste buds, the most unsophisticated of palates. I Say Tomato, You Say Tabasco. Lots of It.
I'll get you a paper, you can fill in the time reading how unsophisticated we are out here. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
The current architectural mandarins tell us all this, and they've cowed many; in matters of taste, no one wants to appear uncultivated and unsophisticated.
As we shall see below, it is naive to assume that most media messages actually do have the effects that their creators intend, even when the audiences are deemed to be unsophisticated and lacking in education.
American analysts basically think that SMS messaging will not take off there because they see it as a feeble, unsophisticated little technology and think they can see better alternatives.
To the unsophisticated ( ie naive ) mind of the average viewer.
Rackhir had hardly been able to follow the complexi - ties of Lamsar's seemingly unsophisticated argument, but he saw that the Grey Lords were pleased. The Bane of the Black Sword
One line of defense is likely to be that while these deals may sound fictitious and fraudulent to unsophisticated outsiders, they are actually standard transactions in high finance.
To some extent what is now occurring is a reflection of what is happening in the outside world because of the vulnerability and susceptibility of unsophisticated, inexperienced but curious and money-hungry students.
I use the term handyman deliberately because it has a kind of unsophisticated connotation that is meant to quietly offend an expert tradesperson. EzineArticles
Their methods were, however, relatively unsophisticated: the point was to assemble a mountain of evidence that would serve as a bulwark against their enemies.
The British are considered ill-mannered, badly dressed and unsophisticated.
painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated
Then I realized that the the form of the final copy was sometimes dictated by unsophisticated dolts.
The council often seems to think that New Yorkers are unsophisticated rubes, continually fleeced by crafty and unethical businesses.
I will continue to not know such-and-such if I'm treated like an ignorant, unsophisticated fool.
It was music of a rather crude kind which unsophisticated audiences enjoyed listening to.
Priests and parishioners are frequently persecuted, and live under constant surveillance and harassment, usually of the crudest and most unsophisticated form.
She is unpolished, unsophisticated, and abominably rude.
At the same time, there has been a revival of interest in the ancient methods of calculation, especially the use of simple and unsophisticated gadgets such as the abacus.
Television programs with unsophisticated or homespun themes that comfort or provide solace.
It may look unsophisticated compared to modern high-tech cameras, but it produces fantastic pictures.
The Hmong were a tough, unsophisticated tribal society whose own backyard grievances made them perfect recruits for this brutal clandestine war.
Like their neighbors in the northern province of Groningen, Frisians tend to be seen as unsophisticated by Netherlanders living in the southern part of the country.
He was pleased that his unsophisticated friends should take his words to be his own.
We're sometimes called imperialists, or colonialists, or infidel, or unsophisticated cowboys. The Speculist: August 2005 Archives
Some lecturers say the students are immature, unsophisticated and do not know what they want in class.
When we met I thought Sam was a ridiculous fop and he considered me an unsophisticated oaf.
They were unlike him, unsophisticated, dirty, ignorant.
For him she'd been just a passing amusement, an unsophisticated native of New Mexico's desert boondocks. THIS TIME LOVE
Streatley, and so went our ways into what once would have been the deeper country under the foot-hills of the White Horse; and though the contrast between half-cockneyfied and wholly unsophisticated country existed no longer, a feeling of exultation rose within me (as it used to do) at sight of the familiar and still unchanged hills of the News from Nowhere
They were, as a rule, too immature and unsophisticated to comprehend the full meaning of much of his discourse.
The enduring image of Queensland for many Australians a beautiful place to holiday, but hampered by a narrow-based economy and an unsophisticated cultural life - is eroding fast.
The term antiquarian tends to carry negative connotations nowadays, of someone with a naive or unsophisticated obsession with the past.
Well, you know, in the end it was very naive and unsophisticated to believe that where you come from doesn't matter.
It was her unsophisticated way of getting back at them for mocking her. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
an unsophisticated machine
Pure air -- from the neighbourhood of a pinetum for the sake of the turpentine -- unadulterated wine, and the reflections of an unsophisticated spirit in the presence of the works of nature -- these, my boy, are the best medical appliances and the best religious comforts. Merry Men
American growth in the wake of independence from Britain resulted in a steady demand for Salisbury iron, which bloomery forge operators met with unsophisticated but valued wrought iron products for the next half century.
The Republicans are content to watch fiscal and economic troubles of their own making burgeon into a conflagration, betting that an unsophisticated electorate will blame the current occupant of the White House come 2012. Peter S. Goodman: No Secrets In America's Latest Economic Crisis: Weak Economies, Weak Leaders
So, I think the other lesson is that with the science as unsophisticated and as crude as it is today - and for at least the future I can foresee - it's nurture that matters so much.
There was more curiosity than fright in the women, as the most unsophisticated observer could have read in their kalsomined countenances. Trail's End
Some lecturers say the students are immature, unsophisticated and do not know what they want in class.
The misguided husband believes that he is going to live a plain unsophisticated life, according to nature and common sense, in company with one whom the hollowness and trickishness of society has never infected. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
Speaking to a broad and unsophisticated audience, he did not satisfy the scruples of some academicians, who found that he oversimplified complex problems.
Netgear's own supplied software does this, though it's unsophisticated compared to the likes of Musicmatch or iTunes.
The axonometric projection has been applied extensively in engineering because of its three-dimensional effect and better measurement and because of its drawing unsophisticatedly.
However wicked this case is, he is still a young, unsophisticated and immature man.
However, unsophisticated people should not let peer pressure push them into a fad.
The international expansion continues apace in parts of the world where retailing is relatively undeveloped, unconsolidated, and unsophisticated.
A single strand of simple, unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.
With such unsophisticated software, you are running the risk of weak security.
The humour is unrepentantly unsophisticated and the stunts appeal to a fundamental human urge to see things go fast, make a lot of noise and then crash.
The Management would like to apologize for the lewd and unsophisticated content of this post.
My dictionary defines naivety as ‘The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical.’
The juggler, a keen little Frenchman, plied his arts nimbly, and what with his ventriloquial doll, his empty bag full of eggs, his stones that were candies, and his candies that were stones, and his stuffed birds that sang, astonished and delighted his unsophisticated patrons, whose applauding murmurs were diversified by familiarly silly shrieks ” the true Siamese Did-you-ever! ” from behind the kincob curtains. The English Governess at the Siamese Court
In the play Othello, the character of Othello has certain traits which make him seem naive and unsophisticated compared to many other people.
Okay, many game developers may be culturally unsophisticated, but challenging their human adulthood and masculinity is a really low blow. Archive 2009-04-01
In July 1995 WB started its search to replace its existing unsophisticated computer system.
It may look unsophisticated compared to modern high-tech cameras, but it produces fantastic pictures.
Tristan smiles, touched as he always is by Lucy's unsophisticated honesty. SEA MUSIC
While other vendors hammered away on their unsophisticated heterogenous software packages, IBM was refining something full of grace and elegance.
Utterly daft and unsophisticated, it elevated Allen to the very head of the children's table - and is sheer delight.
Likewise, to lay the blame of the worldwide financial meltdown at the feet of the federal reserve, and demand that it be audited, is to show one self to be "unsophisticated". Hiroshima AND Nagasaki: The Inside Story « Antiwar.com Blog
In those days electric currents were produced in the laboratory by unsophisticated machines which rubbed plates together, or by cumbersome batteries.
The jerry-built explosive device in the Times Square plot, while dangerous, was described by multiple law enforcement officials and outside experts as of unsophisticated, even amateurish design. Police Find Owner of SUV Used in Bomb Plot
During the anti-war movement, the statute was broadened in an attempt to break the growing underground resistance, making it a federal crime to have simple, unsophisticated incendiary devices, such as we had.
Sometimes I think sincerity is regarded as daggy or unsophisticated, or just too simple to work; but I suspect it's part of the reason the participatory web has taken off. Open Objects
Cold plasma's I assume you mean the equally non sequitur*, nonthermal plasma are just an unsophisticated joke! Hot Crescent Rolls… A Bubble? | Universe Today
Few tricks of the unsophisticated intellect are more curious than the naïve psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support and vigilant protection he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert," wrote the great economic historian R.H. Tawney in 1926. Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS
What came out of their mouths were words to the effect that ‘white trash’ referred to those white individuals who were stupid, unsophisticated, ignorant, poor, and perhaps unworldly.
Even the term citizenship, with all the responsibilities associated with it, have begun to blossom and to play a seminal role in establishing civil rights and democratic practices, albeit at an early and yet unsophisticated stage. Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from Beirut
the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
John Curry from the Australian Shareholders' Association says those that get caught are often unsophisticated investors, bamboozled by flashy letterheads.
Besieged by the media, he's as unsophisticated as he is unshaven.
Blackton had failed to keep up with developments in film technique and his films were dramatically unsophisticated, but he was an expert showman.
Many of the young people are quite untravelled and unsophisticated, and have very limited horizons.
Labour wants to see a range of simple, transparent, low-cost options available to financially unsophisticated consumers, to give them the confidence to manage their own affairs.
I suppose no one ever left him after a first interview without the impression that this was the best and kindest of men, nay, and the simplest and most unsophisticated.
Mrs Howard said: ‘This was an unsophisticated attempt, a botched job that led in effect to Mr Thompson being rescued from the roof.’
It made most people look like unsophisticated rednecks.
It was easy to see why he had been so shy, so unsophisticated, so idealistic.
Do not be rather unsophisticated in the complicated political struggle.
Though simple and unsophisticated by later standards, the census was a milestone in the provision of statistical data and has subsequently been held at ten-year intervals.
Thoroughly unsophisticated, they are ready victims for any retailers of fairy tales who come along.
To appeal to a 15-year-old, fragrances generally need a pleasing, unsophisticated, somewhat fruity or floral top note.
Even with such an unsophisticated method Galileo's estimates turned out to be correct to within an order of magnitude.
To observe that something precious has been lost, covered over, and denied is regarded as dreadfully unsophisticated.
As Jon Stewart's commentary on Dave Silverman's comments about the World Trade Center memorial demonstrated, unsophisticated criticisms of religion estrange reasonable people -- both fellow atheists, and potential religious allies. Chris Stedman: The Problem With 'Atheist Activism'
On the one hand, Mr. Wood wrote, it allowed the writer to “revel in sheer storytelling,” and on the other to “undermine, ironically, the very ‘truths’ and simplicities his apparently unsophisticated narrators traded in.” RIP: José Saramago
It sounds so unrealistically, unsophisticatedly direct - so lacking in politesse and not something that is actually done in the real world.
The countryman went from ruggedly unsophisticated to casually erudite in one quick addition of something so simplistic as a pair of spectacles.
Each time I was instructed that such-and-such a fatuity was the view of "the Europeans," I decided not that my Anglo-Celtic-Polish-German-Jewish heritage was being parodied (though it was) but that someone whose claim to be "European" was at least as good as M. Chirac's should assure his American friends that they need not feel unsophisticated or embarrassed. On Becoming American
If you can't afford that, or you are relatively unsophisticated you turn to a goodhearted but inexperienced personal lawyer, who may or may not do things right. Harold Pollack: A story about eyeglasses
Blackton had failed to keep up with developments in film technique and his films were dramatically unsophisticated, but he was an expert showman.
For him she'd been just a passing amusement, an unsophisticated native of New Mexico's desert boondocks. THIS TIME LOVE
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and perhaps a million have been driven from their homes, a large-scale project which, due to the unsophisticated technology involved, has taken 18 months and is still not complete.
The rides have recently been updated but still remain simple and unsophisticated: ideal for children aged from two to nine, not least the shiny new bouncy castle.
At the same time, there has been a revival of interest in the ancient methods of calculation, especially the use of simple and unsophisticated gadgets such as the abacus.
She wondered what he saw in Roderick McIntyre though she had to admit that the man had a certain unsophisticated charm... But no! NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The natural, unsophisticated beauty of wildflowers in full bloom in spring and fascinating autumnal-tinted leaves in the schoolyards reminded us of the warm love of our mothers.
Made of black bricks and tiles, Wuhou Temple looks very simple and unsophisticated but it does have an air of mystery about it.
a real semblance to the foreign brandy flavor is maintained; the difference in duty upon English and foreign spirit enables the makers of the "capsuled" article to undersell those who vend the unsophisticated The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
Uninspiring design, unsubtle lighting, naive storytelling and an unsophisticated and thumping ‘score’ detract terribly from the performances.
Streatley, and so went our ways into what once would have been the deeper country under the foot-hills of the White Horse; and though the contrast between half-cocknified and wholly unsophisticated country existed no longer, a feeling of exultation rose within me (as it used to do) at sight of the familiar and still unchanged hills of the Berkshire range. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance
He must play Coffey as simple and unsophisticated, but yet intelligent and perceptive in a delicate balancing act.
What can we, the uncultured, unsophisticated, unwashed, barbaric, tacky and ignorant masses learn from the Mother Continent this time around?

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