Example sentences for: unrefined

How can you use “unrefined” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vulgar , which really means no more than `unrefined,' is rarely encountered in modern dictionaries as a label because people have taken to designating four-letter words as vulgar, illustrating the semantic process known as pejoration `depreciation,' the opposite of melioration . Today we should probably consider labeling Great!

  • Coarse has undergone a thorough pejoration; once it began to be used for people, in the sense of `unrefined' or `indelicate,' full stigmatization was probably guaranteed.

  • To most Victorian Anglo-Americans the houses of Santa Fe, even the sprawling governor's palace, were at best unrefined and at worst squalid.


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