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n. - The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.

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  • Hume warned that overrefinement, which is born of excessive luxury, is the most extreme danger to taste and national sensibility.
  • Marked by an unbecoming delicacy or overrefinement
  • Paradox - ically, Gothic aberration might stem not solely from rusticity and lack of cultivation but also from perverse overrefinement, as in the phenomena we now...
  • Little Fuzzy had known exactly what he wanted when he'd started making that thing, he'd kept on until it was as perfect as possible, and had stopped short of spoiling it by...
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