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UK
/ʌnpˈɒlɪʃt/
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ADJECTIVE
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lacking social polish
too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate
their excellent manners always made me feel gauche -
not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing
dull unpolished shoes
How To Use unpolished In A Sentence
- His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism.
- Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
- This article is a little ragged and unpolished.
- He's unpolished as a candidate and the poor man just couldn't get his shit together.
- Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art-a euphemism-tamed wilderness. Dejan Stojanovic
- It's a great string-soaked leap on from XO, his debut for the Dreamworks label, and a different kind of record from Elliott Smith, Roman Candle and Either / Or, his downbeat and unpolished earlier work.
- A few shops in the city buy unpolished pots and sell them for a hefty sum after colouring and decorating them.
- : cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
- He shunned the fury of the senses and what Keats called ‘ruffian passion’, which Boucher perceived as not merely unpolished and irrational but also as supremely unaesthetic.
- Tantalum is a very hard, malleable, ductile metal with a silvery bluish color when unpolished, but a bright silvery color when polished.