What's the difference between classy and sophisticated?

Classy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Drogba hit the side-netting with Chelsea's best chance after Salomon Kalou had escaped Antolín Alcaraz to skip to the goal-line, before the visitors finally opened up Wigan with a classy move to take the lead just before the hour mark.
  • (2) We need classy players, players we can trust, players who we know what they will give us, and players who have the desire, motivation and wish to play for England .
  • (3) His first goal was clinical in its execution and classy in its creation but the second was a thing of beauty, a scything volley after he exchanged passes with the substitute Ángel Di María, launching himself into the air and making the perfect connection to volley the ball into the far corner.
  • (4) The 41-year-old could do nothing to prevent City’s classy second as the break neared.
  • (5) It was a brilliantly classy way of making the story go away.
  • (6) Why not sip it from a rather more sophisticated china rim as opposed to sucking it toddler-like through a slit in a plastic lid (stay classy, Seattle).
  • (7) They were also the first modern family to do so, to be informal yet classy, upright yet kind, and, most important, themselves.
  • (8) We then were subjected to the affair of the menu, in which we learnt just what classy, sophisticated affairs Liberal Party fundraisers are.
  • (9) The Shard was proposed, and being by the celebrated Renzo Piano and having a certain classiness in its form, was approved following a public inquiry.
  • (10) After that, much of the first half was all about Japan dominating possession, with the Lionesses struggling to second-guess Aya Miyami’s midfield promptings and sometimes wrongfooted by the classy Rumi Utsugi.
  • (11) Alvaro Negredo, a second-half substitute, rescued a modicum of pride with a classy left-foot strike after 80 minutes but the late flurry, after Jérôme Boateng had been sent off for bringing down Yaya Touré, was a deception.
  • (12) The HTC One is a powerful, feature-rich device that is also beautiful and classy, while Samsung's handset feels like an overpowered children's toy.
  • (13) The first goal was typical Arsenal, classy in its creation and clinical in its execution.
  • (14) On that note, I'd like to offer my congratulations to North Korea on a resilient display, and in possession they were occasionally quite classy too."
  • (15) She spellchecks on Twitter Asked for etiquette tips on how to stay classy online, Stewart advised the audience to try not to misspell on social media.
  • (16) All that savouring their drinks, inhaling bouquets, admiring vintages, being all classy and evolved.
  • (17) His eagerness was refreshing and he might have deserved better 7 Ryan Mason A blur of energy in Spurs’ midfield, driving his team forward, but he must ally that with better composure in his shooting 6 Nabil Bentaleb Looks a classy and comfortable player, working in tandem with Mason, and his influence will grow in time.
  • (18) Kyle Edmund loses in first round at Wimbledon to Adrian Mannarino Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Classy … No1 seed Novak Djokovic.
  • (19) It was a goal of beauty, the classy passing and movement untouchable, and it knocked both stuffing and ambition out of the hosts until their stoppage time consolation.
  • (20) doncobaino has this to say: doncobaino 23 April 2014 12:51pm A very classy statement from Moyes.

Sophisticated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sophisticate
  • (a.) Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (2) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
  • (3) The initial defect can be directly measured by glucose clamp and other sophisticated techniques; the clinical syndrome may be derived from a network of related variables known to be associated with reduced insulin action.
  • (4) While simple assays of complex I activity are unlikely to be useful in the preclinical detection of Parkinson's disease, other more sophisticated physical-chemical approaches including detection of free radical damage may have utility.
  • (5) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
  • (6) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
  • (7) Lateralization may be an expression of reflex constraints bound initially to the infant's tonic-neck posture, with later development less reflex-patterned during the acquisition of more sophisticated information-processing strategies.
  • (8) A simple multiband volume control is expected to provide much of the benefit of more sophisticated systems without the need for separate estimation of input speech and noise spectra.
  • (9) What’s imperative from an organizational standpoint, he added, is “understanding where voters are, what their concerns are, and building a sophisticated operation around that.
  • (10) The laws of functioning applicable to these approaches are those coming from liberal and planified economical theories while health planning has developed more and more sophisticated and convincing methodologies.
  • (11) Therefore, controlled hypotension, being a sophisticated technique, requires handling by an experienced anesthetist well aware of contraindications and the need for adequate monitoring for prevention of tissue ischemia.
  • (12) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
  • (13) While numerous studies on infant perception have demonstrated the infant's ability to discriminate sounds having different frequencies, little research has evaluated more sophisticated pitch perception abilities such as perceptual constancy and perception of the missing fundamental.
  • (14) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
  • (15) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
  • (16) This validity coefficient turned out to be so high (r = 0.967) that it does not seem necessary to adopt a more sophisticated method, despite a few demonstrable shortcomings of the one in use.
  • (17) The comparison of drug responder and non-responder group has also been made more meaningful by the availability of more reliable methods of assessing clinical phenomena, more sophisticated diagnostic models and the introduction of other biological measures.
  • (18) The environment in the intensive therapy units (ITUs) has thus become increasingly sophisticated with the use of highly specialised equipment.
  • (19) Attempts to save parts of teeth go back 100 years or more, but it is the increased predictability of success of endodontic therapy and the increased sophistication of periodontal treatment that have given us the means to save molars with furcation problems that, otherwise, would be lost.
  • (20) The monitoring equipment gets more sophisticated and easier to use month by month.