The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unpolish \Un*pol"ish\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + polish.] To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
Usage examples of "unpolish".
Her hands, with their short and unpolished nails, trembled on the keyboard.
He was large, gruff, clumsy, and unpolished, but he was learning courtly ways fast.
The bare landscape left behind was as dull and gray as an unpolished stone.
It was etched with runes but unpolished, with two small horns at the wrist edge.
Cradled in the hollowed ingot were chunks of large emeralds and amethysts and stones that she believed to be unpolished diamonds.
The diamonds were unpolished, but, Michael, everything was more the size of rocks than stones.
In so many ways he felt limited and unpolished, but he was learning fast.
As unpolished and unlettered as you were that night, you exhibited a presence no ordinary young man could.
The floor was of bare wooden boards, dark stained, unpolished and clean.
The brisk footsteps on the unpolished wooden floor slowed and became irregular and uncertain as my new visitor saw some of the stuff on the shelves.
And so that you would be aware of, and find less difficult to excuse, the many things that are still obscure, rough, and unpolished, we wished to warn you of them.
He is a cheerful, excitable, insignificant, unpolished man of about 50, naturally unambitious except as to his income and his importance in local society, but just now greatly pleased with the military rank which the war has thrust on him as a man of consequence in his town.
He noted that the handrails were long unpolished, that a couple of stanchions were missing and that several treads were broken.
The nails on her toes were long and unpolished, their surface gnarled from years of dancing.
His accent was unpolished, but his voice was smoother than Caudell would have guessed.