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Genteel — flawless
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polished
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polish \Pol"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Polishing .] [F. polir, L. polire. Cf. Polite , -ish ] To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc. Hence, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES polished ▪ I didn't want to spill anything on the polished surface of the table. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB highly ▪ He levers his feet into a pair of highly polished black calf Oxfords. ▪ A highly polished ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Polished is a short film directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly , featuring William B. Davis as a lonely aging businessman who yearns for human contact from shoeshiner Karyn Dwyer .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Made smooth or shiny by polishing. v (en-past of: polish )
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "made smooth;" early 15c., "elegant;" past participle adjective from polish (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver" [ant: unpolished ] showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his ...
Usage examples of polished.
He was inclined to sit there for a few minutes with his buttocks cupped in the luxuriously polished wooden annulus of the shite-hole, and to savor this triumph, just as the late Samuel Pepys had taught him to do in the case of urination.
The sun shone down into the great north ballium of the castle of Nimmr, glinting from the polished mail of noble knights and from pike and battle-axe of men-at-arms, picking out the gay colon of the robes of the women gathered in the grandstand below the inner wall.
It became a limbless, barkless spear, polished smooth, hollow-tipped, rising above seas of opposing armies.
On the hill someone had lashed together a crucifix of branches, barkless and polished by the weather.
Besides the accustomed lights, two great wax tapers, called Christmas candles, wreathed with greens, were placed on a highly polished beaufet among the family plate.
Her little letter was very prettily turned, and Bernard, reading it over two or three times, said to himself that, to do her justice, she might very well have polished her intellect a trifle during these two or three years.
These blocks of shadows on the polished wood, like the bodies themselves, remained immobile as the stunned faces attached to those bodies stared in astonishment at the gaunt, bespectacled man who stood behind the President in front of a portable blackboard on which he had drawn numerous diagrams using four different colours of chalk.
The Ktemnoi Sacred Squares were dressed in blue shirts and breeches, with brown boiled-leather jacks for the musketeers and polished steel breastplates for the billmen, set off by orange sashes.
The man was polished and his education was obvious, but at heart there was that brawler James had recognized at once.
Swearing, Breezy jerked her hand up to her face and Cori dove, her weight knocking Breezy backward and sending the gun across the polished teak floor, landing in the fringe of the oriental carpet.
Guards were running through the garden, all converging toward the palace, where the clamor momentarily grew louder-tall men in burnished cuirasses and crested helmets of polished bronze.
The house was bustling with activity, the silver being polished, the Sevres china being washed, flowers being arranged, dozens of last minute tasks being seen to.
With more polished extravaganzas like the Arabian Desert Classic, the future of the Beach is shining.
Murad quickly removed four PhilUps-head screws and pulled out the polished aluminium plate allowing the entrails of the magnetoscope to be examined.
Duppra Mallat half seen inside the chair, a massive form, a curve of cheek, a mound of arm, long and sweeping, the flesh smooth and solid as polished stone.