unrefinement

Example Sentences

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Their unrefinement sensed and satisfied what the U.S. wanted in the way of entertainment.

From Time Magazine Archive

But their Commander was ready for them if their joy should pass from unconfinement to unrefinement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Infant's sobriquet among those of his contemporaries who valued him was "Bags," but in ladies' society Lord Hemsworth was wont to soften the unrefinement of the name by modifying it to Trousers.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

She was irritated by the large cubic capacity—the length, breadth, and thickness of his ignorance and unrefinement; he was dazed by the length, breadth, an' thickness of her learning an' her charm.

From Keeping up with Lizzie by Bacheller, Irving

The adjective that the officer used—"sale"—does not imply necessarily literal physical dirt, but a moral callousness and unrefinement of soul which in the spiritual realm corresponds with the term "dirty" in the physical.

From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert