See sophistication in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "deceptive logic; sophistry",
"word": "hamis érvelés"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podpravjane",
"sense": "falsification or contamination",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "подправяне"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "falšifikacija",
"sense": "falsification or contamination",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фалшификация"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "falsification or contamination",
"word": "meghamisítás"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "falsification or contamination",
"word": "elferdítés"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "složnost",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сложност"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Raffinesse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Komplexheit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ausgereiftheit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sophistikation"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hochentwicklung"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "complessità"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "finezza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "finezja"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "complexity",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "wyrafinowanie"
}
],
"word": "sophistication"
}
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