sophisticatedly

English

Etymology

sophisticated + -ly

Adverb

sophisticatedly (comparative more sophisticatedly, superlative most sophisticatedly)

  1. in a sophisticated manner
    • 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858:
      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.
    • 1907, Emerson Hough, The Way of a Man:
      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.
    • 1995 March 10, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
      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.
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