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Does that mean I like laziness and unrefinement when I eat a chopped salad or does that mean I like an appreciation for the finer things, but at the core, comfortably casual?
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Does that mean I like laziness and unrefinement when I eat a chopped salad or does that mean I like an appreciation for the finer things, but at the core, comfortably casual?
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The crudeness and the unrefinement in feature are not necessary accompaniments of color.
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890 Various
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As he spoke she seemed to be transfigured, and to have indeed no part with refinement or unrefinement any longer.
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She was irritated by the large cubic capacity -- the length, breadth, and thickness of his ignorance and unrefinement; he was dazed by the length, breadth, an 'thickness of her learning an' her charm.
Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904
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The adjective that the officer used -- "_sale_" -- does not imply necessarily literal physical dirt, but a moral callousness and unrefinement of soul which in the spiritual realm corresponds with the term "dirty" in the physical.
The World Decision Robert Herrick 1903
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There are possibilities in unrefinement, pregnant with customization opportunities in which you may become immersed at the roadside.
fullasagoog.com full roast blend DigitalMediaMinute 2010
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Moreover, I detested the life there -- the roughness and unrefinement of it all. "
The Farringdons Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 1894
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