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Meanings of unpolished in anglès

Lacking social polish.

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Not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing.

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Examples for "graceless"
Examples for "graceless"
1
Splendid; airy, untouched by fear; untouched by thought; fearless, faithless, heedless, graceless.
If Winter Comes
2
Those three graceless girls read the sentimental rhyme and giggled over it.
The Golden Road
3
He called himself the basest of wretches, the most graceless of lovers.
Nedra
4
He looked around the room, which was stuffed with heavy graceless furniture.
Misery
5
We look at their portraits and wonder vaguely at their graceless costumes.
Worldly Ways & Byways
1
Such unbridled ambition may seem gauche, but Portadown know what they want.
The Irish Times
2
Initially gauche, she has improved with this latest run of six shows.
The Guardian
3
With his free hand Temper drew his gauche and thrust at her.
Night of Knives
4
There is some prospect that the opposition will be gauche by comparison.
The Guardian
5
Ah well, each to his own: one man's gorgeous is another's gauche.
The Guardian
Usage of unpolished in anglès
1
Difficult People is a great little gem, somewhat unpolished but dazzling nonetheless.
News.com.au
2
The tone of it is somewhat unpolished, but the spirit is zealous.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
3
In his exceeding rude, unpolished style which pictures the man, he writes:
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
4
Hull struck everyone in the room as almost comically banal and unpolished.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
5
It is constructed of various kinds of unpolished marble and terra-cotta panels.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
6
Down the edges are rows of small, unpolished pearls, running into points.
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
7
She shook her head, blushing pleasurably at his unpolished but sincere compliments.
The Valley of the Giants
8
Instead of being emotionally candid we're perpetually sarcastic, self-deprecating and deliberately unpolished.
The Guardian
9
Though born to rank and power, they were yet rude, rough, unpolished.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
10
What radiant glory the lapidary can see in the rough, unpolished gem!
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
11
Tinker regarded Slidell with eyes as gray and bland as unpolished pewter.
Bones Never Lie
12
Seeing the opportunity, they pitched their unpolished idea for the iPad-based hip-hop program.
Ebony
13
The Romans, in the infancy of their state, were entirely rude and unpolished.
The Illustrated London Reading Book
14
But they are very ill-bred and unpolished in the western country.
Redburn. His First Voyage / Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and...
15
Of course it was unpolished, but even in that state was very beautiful.
Six Months at the Cape
16
The chairs and tables were of unpolished oak, and of a rustic fashion.
The Lovels of Arden
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