polyester

adjective

Definition of polyesternext
as in unsophisticated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyester
  1. unsophisticated
  2. provincial
  3. rustic
  4. inelegant
  5. boorish
  6. backwoods
  7. clownish
  8. uncouth
Adjective
  • Sophisticated scams The days of thinking of scammers as unsophisticated, disjointed actors are over in 2026, according to Yoon.
    — Ella Moore July 2, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Phishing remains one of the most effective means of gaining access to accounts, despite the relatively unsophisticated technical prowess required.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
Definition of unsophisticated
Adjective
  • Most projects, after all, start small—a municipal equipment contract, a provincial memorandum, a maintenance agreement.
    — Natalia Cote-Muñoz, Foreign Affairs, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial emergency service, said the attacker struck dozens of people who were chanting antimilitant slogans and demanding peace.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of provincial
Adjective
  • The sprawling Relais & Châteaux estate spans 300 acres of forests, meadows and mountains (Vermont’s Green Mountains, to be exact) and features rustic-chic accommodations across the Lodge, Main House, Farmhouse at Copper Pond and 10 cottages.
    — Rebecca R. Norris, USA Today, 31 July 2026
  • This is a rustic 10-site campground that sits at 7,100-feet elevation and is deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of rustic
Adjective
  • Holzinger jumps into the tank, her movements inelegant and panicked, and pulls Nüganen out.
    — Lauren Oyler, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • One of the more revealing patterns to emerge from the category is something known as zebra striping, a perhaps inelegant term, but a quick phrase to show the shift in highly intelligent consumer behaviour.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of inelegant
Adjective
  • The poem tells us of 12 slave girls who sleep with Penelope’s boorish suitors.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
  • In the mid-19th century, a family of Dutch-Afrikaans homesteaders sets out to cross the inhospitable terrain of the Kalahari Desert along with their backer, a boorish Brit whose avarice and bigotry loom large over the journey.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
Definition of boorish
Adjective
  • Frances Quinlan Quinlan had planned to celebrate her 34th birthday in a backwoods cabin this week, before a Friday show in Ohio.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2020
  • The potholes are worth it, however, for the great weekend of backwoods hiking and exploring .
    — Stef Schrader, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2020
Definition of backwoods
Adjective
  • Martin showed that even a clownish gentleman with a pure heart could woo someone like Tisha Campbell’s Gina.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Definition of clownish
Adjective
  • An uncouth mix of stress and chlorine exposure recently left my skin simultaneously drier and more breakout-prone than it's been in quite a long time, and my usual routine of a quarter-size drop of skin tint just wasn’t cutting it anymore.
    — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 1 July 2026
  • And any expression otherwise is so taboo or deemed uncouth, and we aren’t allowed to talk about it in our art and media.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2026
Definition of uncouth
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