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Definition of Polished
Polished

of Polish

Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.

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Polished Quotations

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
Marisa Tomei

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Friedrich Von Schlegel

Polished Translations

polished in German is abgeschliffen, polierte
polished in Latin is teres
polished in Swedish is polerad


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