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used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste" civilized, couth, dainty, debonair, finespun, gentlemanlike, ladylike, overrefined, well-bred freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" elegant made pure pure 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" sophisticated suggesting taste, ease, and wealth gracious |
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