refined
adjective
having or showing well-bred feeling, taste, etc..
ultrarefined
-
a word derived from
refined.
Example Sentences
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Antonio Canova’s half-size treatment of the legendary Greek pugilist Creugas shows this ultrarefined artist crosshatching and tinting plaster until it looks like gently roughened wood, and it’s dazzling.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
Folmar’s pedigree includes ultrarefined comedies such as “The School for Lies” with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and it shows whenever he slips into characters Crumpet describes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2017
Was it the land of the ultrarefined, Apollonian tea ceremony?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2017
At the time, ultrarefined ink landscape painting was the Japanese art of choice among connoisseurs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2014
Health officials and their laboratory experts, using ultrarefined microtechniques, began closing in on the culprit microbes.
From Time Magazine Archive
