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Country :: Country (a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners..

Inelegancy :: Inelegancy (n.) The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners..

Elegancy :: Elegancy (n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc..

Coarse-grained :: Coarse-grained (a.) Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement..

Euphuism :: Euphuism (n.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

Elaboration :: Elaboration (n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Politeness :: Politeness (n.) The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

Rough :: Rough (n.) Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish..

Refinement :: Refinement (n.) The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas..

Euphuize :: Euphuize (v. t.) To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action..

Subtilty :: Subtilty (n.) Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.

Rude :: Rude (superl.) Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

Barbaic :: Barbaic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement..

Urbanity :: Urbanity (n.) The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement.

Culture :: Culture (n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

Overrefinement :: Overrefinement (n.) Excessive refinement.

Test :: Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Indelicacy :: Indelicacy (n.) The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind..

Exaltation :: Exaltation (n.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property..

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