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refined

If you are refined, you are polite and well-educated. You can find many refined people in the Louvre museum.

refined

(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship refined people with refined taste (= processed) freed from impurities by processing refined sugar refined oil to gild refined gold — Shakespeare (= polished, 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 (= neat) free from what is tawdry or unbecoming a neat style a neat set of rules she hated to have her neat plans upset (= elegant) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

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Simple sentences

In this democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered the best, regardless of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful.
Hanako impressed the guests no less by her exotic beauty and elegance than by her erudition and refined conversation.
She's elegant and refined.
Crude oil is refined at this plant.
Refined sugar is bad for your health.
She has very refined manners.

Movie subtitles

That slug never wants to meet any refined people.
If you want to be really refined, you have to be dead.
But in a very refined way.
Mmm-hmm. And really refined, isn't she?
You know, I told you about her the other day - the one with the refined voice.
She's a refined lady, unlike you.
And to be a refined man of esteemed rank.
It will when it's refined by some other guy.
The cavalry isn't refined, miss.
I don't know any refined enough for your taste.
Your elegance is more refined every day.
Marie doesn't say it, her language is refined.
Because you think you're refined, kind and full of consideration.
She's so refined I think I'll kill myself.
We've just had the good fortune to meet two charming and refined young ladies.
Murder, my dear Watson. A refined cold blooded murder.
And really refined, isn't she?
Refined, maybe.
A refined woman who lives the time here too.
But moreover, distinguished and refined.
You talk like they do in Parioli. A refined type.
Next to a young lady, an actress, but very refined.
In his private residence, the Prince of Gonzague hosted the most refined soirees in all of Paris.
The young Scandinavian woman is receptive to a refined speech tinted by a foreign accent.
A blind man's hearing is sharper than ours. his sense of smell more refined, his sense of touch more accurate.
Papa, can't you learn to be a little more refined?
Refined?
Papa, can't you be more refined?
Not too bright. I thought you were more refined.
The stamp of one of England's most refined jewelers.
Very middle-aged, very refined, and very wealthy.
Even a decorator as refined that you will only be seduced. he is going to be necessary to decide you after all these fruitless presentations.
She's so refined.
I mean, she's too refined for Yokogawa.
Why too refined?

News and current affairs

Pogge and Hollis have now refined their proposal to the point that it is ready for a real-world trial.
The answer is that countries should seek to do both: Lower the price paid to oil producers and raise the price paid by oil consumers, by cutting subsidies for oil and refined products or raising taxes on them.
First, the measures put in place earlier to repair the financial system must be refined and consolidated.
Ignoring the fact that bread in Babylon was probably healthier than today's highly refined product, the price of gold today is not so different, equal to perhaps 600 loaves of bread.
Of course, theory and practice have been refined.
Other medical fields have refined the diagnostic process to the point where computerized laboratory tests have virtually replaced clinical examination of patients.
A leading example is food supply - an area where technology has continually produced ever-more highly processed and genetically refined food that scientists are only beginning to assess.
They then take delivery on their premises so that overall refined inventories rise, but that increase is not part of reported commercial inventories.
What would also help would be to make clear that Iran would face additional sanctions, including constraints on its ability to import refined petroleum, if it refused to accept a fair and reasonable compromise.
This elitist model appeals to Chinese intellectuals who desire refined rulers.
Trump, for one, also promotes greed, openly boasting of his wealth, and has somehow refined outlandish hubris and contradictory posturing into a bizarre form of charisma.
First, a naval blockade (reminiscent of the Cuban missile crisis) that halted both Iran's oil exports and imports of refined fuel would cripple the country's economy.
The summit's declaration also enunciated, in refined diplomatic language, new rights and obligations concerning international intervention in a country's internal matters, as in Darfur.
Berlusconi may not be the most refined of Italians, but after many trials it has never been proven that he committed any crime.
Today, with Iran starved of technology and spare parts for existing equipment, OPEC's second-largest oil producer in 2006 has become a net importer of refined petroleum products.
They are more tolerant of human frailties, and have a more refined appreciation of the art of seduction.
As famine spread that summer, Stalin refined his explanation: hunger was sabotage, local Communist activists were the saboteurs, protected by higher authorities, and all were paid by foreign spies.

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