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unpolished adjective 1. crude, rough, unfinished, rude, sketchy, rough and ready, unworked, unfashioned Much of the prose is unpolished. 2. unrefined, unsophisticated, uncouth, vulgar, uncultivated, uncivilized, uncultured an uncouth and unpolished yokel Translations unpolished adj (fig) person, manners → ungeschliffen, ungehobelt; performance → unausgefeilt; style, language → holprig, unausgefeilt How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. Knightley thought highly of thembut they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect. After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin. |
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