Feuntarabia or San Sebastian, if he does not think overrefined. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
I don't find any of his work overrefined or affected or delicate. From Wordnik.com. ["U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery today for pancreatic cancer."] Reference
China itself as possessing a hybrid, overrefined, super - ficial, and sick civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
I like the way the word sounds, and the look of the double o's in both words--"Bloof Books"--and that its personality is not fraught, overrefined, or frou frou. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
It called out pasta, cereal, and overrefined grains as particularly recommended, failing to make too much of the fact that those foods are often stripped of their natural nutrients, and doused with sugars during processing. From Wordnik.com. [THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET] Reference
Its manufacturer, refusing to bow to the trend towards simple automatic cameras, continued to produce a technological top product, and thus overrefined it to such an extent that it became too sophisticated and expensive for anyone except a small circle of camera cranks. From Wordnik.com. [Eurosclerosis: Fact or Fiction?] Reference
It is often most elaborate, artificial, overrefined -- one might even say, affected. From Wordnik.com. [Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans] Reference
Creative Review magazine recently pointed to the emergence of bright day-glo colors and misused typography as a potential reaction to slickness and overrefined design. From Wordnik.com. [PSFK] Reference
In response, the motocross track's attorney has dismissed the claims by the plaintiffs, who he described as "hypersensitive persons with fastidious and overrefined tastes and nervous disposition.". From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
My parents were normal and fairly healthy; but I consider that heredity, though not vitiated, is somewhat overrefined, and there is a neuropathic tendency, which has appeared in myself and in one or two other members of the family. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
In addition to fire-eating, Dufour gave exhibitions of his ability to consume immense quantities of solid food, and he displayed an appetite for live animals, reptiles, and insects that probably proved highly entertaining to the not overrefined taste of the audiences of his day. From Wordnik.com. [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference
But whether it’s been overrefined or not has a huge influence on your long-term weight and health. From Wordnik.com. [THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET] Reference
If it says it’s made with wheat flour as opposed to whole-wheat flour, also deep-six it because wheat flour is over-refined flour not the same as whole-wheat flour, and overrefined flour is not good for us. From Wordnik.com. [THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET] Reference
No enough protein, too many overrefined sugars, and even if you’re getting exactly the daily recommended allowance of calories that day … you could very very easily still fall into the obese range from water retention alone (not to mention all those sugars get turned into fat if you get overstimulating your pancreas etc …). From Wordnik.com. [*The Big Skinny — Recommended » Comics Worth Reading] Reference
1 In sense 4 of Answers.com’s definition : Affectedly dainty or overrefined: precious mannerisms. From Wordnik.com. [English Polish | Linguism] Reference
However, I will admit that as long as it is satire, gross, overblown, almost baffoonish or caricaturish satire, with a gigantism of conceit, with absurd, cock-eyed,bewildering plots Amis for example who vacillates between a Nabokovian compulsiveness towards overrefined elegance as per the British humoristic tendancy and short, sardonic, dismissiveness, motivated by this kind of bizarre self-conconsciousness and need to cut back the hyperintellectual throttle, is equally expert at both, then the use of dead-pan, staccato rhythms and a kind of British terseness or sharp brevity, seems to work: this is minimalism somewhat denatured. From Wordnik.com. [I read this last week] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.