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sophomoric
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soph·o·mor·ic
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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a
sophomore
or
sophomores
.
2.
suggestive of or resembling the traditional
sophomore
;
intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited, etc., but immature:
sophomoric questions.
Also,
soph·o·mor·i·cal.
Origin:
1805–15,
Americanism
;
sophomore
+
-ic
Related forms
soph·o·mor·i·cal·ly,
adverb
un·soph·o·mor·ic,
adjective
un·soph·o·mor·i·cal,
adjective
un·soph·o·mor·i·cal·ly,
adverb
Synonyms
2.
childish, adolescent, juvenile.
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Despite the
sophomoric
provocation, there was a startling audacity to much of his work at that time.
And the practice is not limited to
sophomoric
hoaxes.
Sophomoric
whining about the market and maintaining academic exceptionalism is not going to cut it.
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Despite the
sophomoric
provocation, there was a startling audacity to much of his work at that time.
And the practice is not limited to
sophomoric
hoaxes.
Sophomoric
whining about the market and maintaining academic exceptionalism is not going to cut it.
It is curious that an editorial page so consistently self-righteous should stoop to such a
sophomoric
stunt.
Those would be
sophomoric
responses, and graduate students are not sophomores.
Here he continues to display his
sophomoric
grasp of science with these musings.
But the whole idea of taxes being theft, especially when levied by a representative government, strikes me as being
sophomoric
.
Your comment shows a
sophomoric
grasp of measurement philosophy, theory, and method.
The editors allege that the administration is trying to muzzle the
sophomoric
and often vulgar publication.
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