sophomorical

* In Webster's Dictionary, Mr. Calhoun's authority is given for the word sophomorical in this sense.

Fifty Years Since: An Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina 1860

In those days we had a youth of talent in the family, -- a sort of sophomorical boil, that the soap and sugar of indiscriminate adulation had drawn to a head of conceit.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

Southern character has always been eminently receptive of the puerile and nonsensical, while the vast proportion of semi-savage, semi-sophomorical minds in Dixie, half-educated and altogether idle and debauched, has made their land a fertile field for quack Bickleys, brutal and arrogant Pikes, and other petty tools of greater and more powerful knaves.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Coming from a heart ablaze with the passionate resentment of a people smarting under the humiliation of defeat, it was inevitable that along with the just indignation at wrongs which ought never to have been committed, there should have crept in many intemperate and indiscriminate denunciations of acts which the writer did not understand, to say nothing of sophomorical vaporings calculated now only to excite a smile.

The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, 1908

Berlin is still in the throes of that sophomorical philosophy of life which believes that it is, from the point of view of sophistication, of age, when it is free to be befuddled with wine and befooled by women.

Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886

Nothing can be imagined more ridiculously provincial than the sophomorical editorials in the Southern press just before the outbreak of the war, or than the backward and ill-informed articles which passed for reviews in the poorly supported periodicals of the South.

Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

Nothing can be imagined more ridiculously provincial than the sophomorical editorials in the southern press just before the outbreak of the war, or than the backward and ill-informed articles which passed for reviews in the poorly supported periodicals of the South.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

If, perchance, the master picked up some verbose Fourth of July oration, or some sophomorical newspaper declamation, he delivered it over to our tender mercies with as little remorse as a huntsman feels in throwing a dead fox to the dogs.

Oldtown Folks 1869

McIver says it was sophomorical high falutin & common-place.

Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Laura Caroline Phillips, June 14, 1869 1869

Hence, when invited to make a Fourth of July speech before some village lyceum, they imagine the applause which greets their sophomorical rhodomontade to be as lasting

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860