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polished

perfected or made shiny and smooth his polished prose in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes freshly polished silver (= urbane) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience his polished manner maintained an urbane tone in his letters (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed polished rice (= dressed) (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

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Simple sentences

My brother polished the silver.
My father polished his car till it shone.
The diamond in this ring is polished.
Go get your shoes polished.
The shoes need to be polished.
I had my shoes polished.
I polished my shoes.
Mary polished her father's shoes.
I polished Mary's shoes for her.
Tom polished his father's shoes.
When did the Japanese start eating polished rice?
I polished your shoes for you.

Movie subtitles

The men I know. and I've known dozens of them. they're so nice. so polished, so considerate.
When my shoes were being polished, I gave you more.
So Max got that old bus off its blocks and polished it up.
How would you Iike to have this polished, sir?
On the theory that the only time a German looks down is to see if his boots are properly polished.
Well, they finally polished off Jesse James, and after we left the movie she invited me to her house for tea.
Have 'em polished?
A little taller a little more polished than the others.
It's a mahogany-and-polished-brass place.
Well, this one isn't polished yet.
We measured, sanded and polished every board.
They smoothed it. They polished it.
Finished, polished, no detail untouched.
Each one of those oxen has polished brass balls on their horns, so everybody can see from afar that they are bringing a special brew.
That's a very polished little speech for a. barbarian.
No hard feelings because you polished off my fighter.
It prevents them from scratching to have them polished first.
Won't that make a pretty souvenir after it's polished?
So Max got that old bus down off its blocks and polished it up.
Well, you're a polished gentleman.
Now he just sits in it. and his sons and grandsons and nephews keep it polished.
We're old hands at it. We polished it. Raised it to a new art.
A little taller. A little more polished than the others.
I get a great kick of it when you go around flicking the furniture to see if i've dusted, or checking the silver to see if it's polished.
Only this morning she polished the lock of the vault 'til it shone like a dazzling star.
A lovely building with a nice lobby, shining parquet floors, polished brass, and an immaculate stairway.
You know they've really been polished.
Stew, will you see that he's polished up?
White polished rice!
They'll be polished. Polished.
We start practicing as children on sheets torn from notebooks, graduating to polished specimens forged by expert adult hands.
Yes, and I've polished the taps.

News and current affairs

David Cameron was polished but vague, and the jowly Brown came across as gun loaded with statistics.
Some are sawn and polished to be made into clock faces, gewgaws, and souvenirs.
Goods taxed at high rates (for example, polished granite) are sold as goods taxed at lower rates (for example, as unpolished granite).
It seems that Hu Jintao is more skillful than the polished Obama at maximizing his gains at little cost.
Yet, Italian machismo, with its polished shoes and shiny suits, is different from the more rough-hewn Russian version.

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