Definition of overrefined
: excessively refined
- … appears to be attempting to shed his overrefined appearance to demonstrate … he can hurl partisan vitriol with the best of them.
- —David Catanese
- …its clichéd reputation … as the most overrefined, overcivilized, repressed nation on Earth, a place of raised pinkies and cakes …
- —Russell Smith
- Our version switches out the potatoes for yams and the overrefined vegetable oil for coconut oil …
- —Margaret Floyd and James Barry
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overrefinement
play \ˌō-vər-ri-ˈfīn-mənt\ noun, plural overrefinements-
- … a boy some seventeen years of age, with his hands all skinned and sore from having picked corn in the cornfield, in those days when a glove was an overrefinement …
- —Francis G. Blair
