Thesaurus / unrefined

unrefined

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It came from one accustomed to bring excellent, if unrefined sense, to bear quickly upon any emergency, and to decide rapidly.

RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

You know these people, though they have great riches, are very often very unrefined.

But she also sat down to the piano without being invited, and sang a song which it was plain Mrs. Gano thought unrefined.

Par′affin-oil, any of the mineral burning oils associated with the manufacture of paraffin; Par′affin-scale, unrefined paraffin.

She thought him unrefined, noisy, but probably good-hearted and generous.

In "blister copper" (which is the unrefined metal), aluminium, silicon, and phosphorus may be met with.

I have seen him once before to-day, and he appeared singularly vulgar and unrefined.

It does not make me less fond of you; but I am often sorry, when we talk together, to notice how unrefined your ideas are.

One of the vats was full of a rich brown liquid, which we were informed was unrefined cod-liver oil.

ACROSS ICELANDWILLIAM BISIKER

A mediæval crowd at fair time was entertained by mountebanks, tumblers, and similar rough makers of unrefined mirth.

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