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Search phrase: polished

Plays

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Henry IV Part 22H4 IV.v.24O polished perturbation! Golden care!O pollish'd Perturbation! Golden Care!
Henry VI Part 22H6 III.ii.271'Tis like the commons, rude unpolished hinds,'Tis like the Commons, rude vnpolisht Hindes,
King Edward IIIE3 I.i.76His lame unpolished shifts are come to light;His lame vnpolisht shifts are come to light,
Love's Labour's LostLLL IV.ii.17unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or,vnpolished, vneducated, vnpruned, vntrained, or
The Taming of the ShrewTS IV.i.111You loggerheaded and unpolished grooms!You logger-headed and vnpollisht groomes:

Poems

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SonnetsSonn.85.8 In polished form of well-refined pen. In polisht forme of well refined pen.
Venus and AdonisVen.d2 unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the vnpolisht lines to your Lordship, nor how the

Glossary

 6 result(s).
boltedrefined, carefully sifted, polished
filedrefined, smooth, polished
orthographyspeaker of high-flown phrases, stylistically polished person
rawunrefined, unskilled, unpolished
roughimperfect, unpolished, untidy
unpolishedprimitive, rudimentary, defective

Thesaurus

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polishedbolted
polishedfiled
stylistically polished personorthography
unpolishedraw
unpolishedrough

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Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
POLISHEDBASICpolished adj
POLISHEDNOTunpolished adj
UNPOLISHEDBASICsee POLISHED

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