"You can play with absurd little dignitaries, or with mountain illiterates-anything abnormal-but for your own blood-" He paused there a moment, searching his abundant and Sophomoric vocabulary for the exact combination of withering words; and, while he hesitated, she interrupted in a tone which was both quiet and ominous: "Let's take up one thing at a time, Morgan.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
How Sophomoric and seventeen-year-oldish they sound!
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2"
Rupert Hughes
He had written, at the beginning, rather biting if Sophomoric things, inspired by the malice he sensed toward his profession.
"Gargoyles"
Ben Hecht