refined
/ɹɪˈfaɪnd/ adjetivo C1En español: paltón, refinado
- Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out. · The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
- Developed, improved. · The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
- Elevated and polished. · In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
- Elegant, sometimes (derogatory) affected, prissy, or bloodless. · Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
- Highly-processed and pure. · Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
- Free of dross or alloy. · The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver.
- Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
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"Because the faculties become refined when you starve them.
She was pretty in a refined way; and her eye was both merry and kind.
The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.
“It is murder, Watson—refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.
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