Definition of Polished

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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. Related Definitions: And, As, By, Finished, Glossy, Hence, Highly, Made, Of, Plate, Polish, Polished, Polite, Refined, Smooth, Verse

Polished Quotations

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

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

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

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
James Stockdale

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean de la Bruyere

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

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
Kim Weston

Polished Translations

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

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