unsophisticated

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A good face--unsophisticated, but intelligent, mettlesome and honest.

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  1. adjective Not sophisticated. See Synonyms at naive.

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  • You could read too much into a picture, she told herself, recalling the unsophisticated snapshots of herself, mostly taken by her father, that littered the farmhouse. —  Fox Evil
  • Children are unsophisticated, and like sugar better than silver, any day. —  Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2
  • This he had never seen,—the man at his simplest terms, unsophisticated, and, to him, the nearest approach to the primitive savage he would ever be able to examine; and he studied every action. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
  • Would it be wrong to just offer it to the poor or the most financially unsophisticated, and not to anyone else? —  The Red Tape Chronicles
  • Gowan takes great pains to show the present-day Dwight as an unsophisticated, artless type, but constantly intrudes on his first-person voice to punch up his plain language-making it slightly more literary, maybe, but significantly less believable. —  The Georgia Straight - News And Views
 

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/ənsəˈfɪstɪkeɪtɛd/
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