sophisticative

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Adjective

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sophisticative (comparative more sophisticative, superlative most sophisticative)

  1. deceptive; sophistical.
    • 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247:
      A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction.