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sophisticatedly en · ADV

Etymology

From sophisticated + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a sophisticated manner.
   • On their third album, Amorica (American), they stretch nicely beyond their Faces evocations, resulting in a pleasantly soulful, groovy, and sophisticatedly accurate recollection of a previous decade. 1995 March 10, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
   • He could sing you into tears, and dance you into love, and talk you into wonder; when he drew, you begged for his portrait by himself, and when he wrote, you solicited his autograph. Mr. Philip Withers had taken his moustache to foreign parts, and done the Continent sophisticatedly. 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:
   • There stood old Mandy McGovern, her long brown rifle half raised, her finger lying sophisticatedly along the trigger guard, that she might not touch the hair trigger. 1907, Emerson Hough, The Way of a Man:

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