unrefinement

Example Sentences

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But their Commander was ready for them if their joy should pass from unconfinement to unrefinement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their unrefinement sensed and satisfied what the U.S. wanted in the way of entertainment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The adjective that the officer used—"sale"—does not imply necessarily literal physical dirt, but a moral callousness and unrefinement of soul which in the spiritual realm corresponds with the term "dirty" in the physical.

From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert

The Infant's sobriquet among those of his contemporaries who valued him was "Bags," but in ladies' society Lord Hemsworth was wont to soften the unrefinement of the name by modifying it to Trousers.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

It was, after all, the atmosphere that depressed her, she concluded with her next thought—the general air of slovenly unrefinement revealed in the details of the room and of the carelessly laid table.

From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson