Crossword-Solution: REFINEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refinement | n. | The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. |
| Refinement | n. | That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “REFINEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Overhaul that goes from basic to bougie | 1 answer |
| Elegance of manner | 4 answers |
| BEAUTY of movement | 22 answers |
| good manners | 31 answers |
| learnedness | 48 answers |
| punctiliousness | 48 answers |
| ceremoniousness | 48 answers |
| fine distinction | 49 answers |
| Daintiness | 49 answers |
| sophistication | 49 answers |
| Edification | 51 answers |
| Nicety | 51 answers |
| civilisation | 51 answers |
| fineness | 52 answers |
| fastidiousness | 52 answers |
| civility | 52 answers |
| purification | 52 answers |
| social grace | 52 answers |
| Affability | 53 answers |
| Savoir-faire | 54 answers |
| Teachings | 55 answers |
| flavour | 55 answers |
| finesse | 56 answers |
| cultivation | 56 answers |
| Nuance | 57 answers |
| etiquette | 58 answers |
| gentility | 59 answers |
| Erudition | 59 answers |
| Discretion | 59 answers |
| Deportment | 59 answers |
| cleverness | 61 answers |
| Manners | 63 answers |
| education | 65 answers |
| Culture ___ | 65 answers |
| Polish | 75 answers |
| Elegance | 82 answers |
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Sentences with REFINEMENT (5)
From the wharves I strolled around and over the town, gazing with wonder and admiration at the splendid churches, beautiful dwellings, and finely-cultivated gardens; evincing an amount of wealth, comfort, taste, and refinement, such as I had never seen in any part of slaveholding Maryland.
There was a certain animal form of refinement in his nature; and however pleasant a strange condition might be whilst privations were easily warded off, it was disadvantageously coarse when money was short.
The age had not so much refinement, that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution.
Through all this variety of decoration, however, the room showed its original characteristics; its low stud, its cross-beam, its chimney-piece, with the old-fashioned Dutch tiles; so that it was the emblem of a mind industriously stored with foreign ideas, and elaborated into artificial refinement, but neither larger, nor, in its proper self, more elegant than before.
Let me see red in anger but for a moment, and all the instincts of the savage beast that I really am, submerge what little I possess of the milder ways of culture and refinement.
Quotes with REFINEMENT (3)
And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for no reason that they themselves knew of. The child’s whole body was covered in bruises. Eventually they devised a new refinement. Under the pretext that the child dirtied her bed (as though a five-year-old deep in her angelic sleep could be punished for that), they forced her to eat excrement, smearing it all over her face. And it was the mother t…
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book — and that he did not learn it better.
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
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Appears in: NYT, Slate, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).