refined
adjective
having or showing well-bred feeling, taste, etc..
refinedly
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a word derived from
refined.
Example Sentences
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The whole thing was refinedly cruel, but really there was no help for it.
From The Crimson Blind by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
Having been educated carefully and refinedly, speaking French fluently, therefore I only wish to deal with the elite of the bon- ton.
From Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The ladies Heth, having dined refinedly in their sitting-room, descended in search of cooling breezes, or for any other reason why.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
At his pleasure he might fracture all of the decalogue that was refinedly fracturable, and so long as he rescued his social position intact from the ruin, he was her man just the same.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
I could hardly forbear laughing in his face while he proceeded to discuss, with the profoundest gravity, what he termed "the refinedly peculiar character" of the insult he had received.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
