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Adjective(1) (2) used of persons and their behavior(3) freed from impurities by processing(4) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience(5) made pure(6) suggesting taste(7) ease(8) and wealth(9) free from what is tawdry or unbecoming(10) cultured(11) civilized(12) cleaned of impurities

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(1) Much of it is familiar territory: for good health, cut back on sugar, avoid refined foods, take regular exercise, eat oily fish and drink at most one unit of alcohol a day.(2) In American colonial times, sugar was not as refined as nowadays and contained impurities.(3) Most are less refined than white sugar, have a slightly higher nutritional value, and tend to be broken down more slowly in the body, creating less impact on blood sugar.(4) It is conceivable that a more refined and precise way of parametrization could have led to a totally different result.(5) In my view, this is clearly the work of a more refined and subtle draughtsman.(6) The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere and guanashina, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.(7) Campbell's manner is refined and thoughtful; he is not a forceful lecturer, but a measured and methodical rhetorician.(8) The elegance of refined Shanghai ladies of the first half of last century is long lost.(9) Having been kept as a house slave by his planter-master, who had taught him to read and write, he had acquired refined , civilized tastes.(10) Such songbirds were considered the most elegant and refined of pets, a living reference to traditional Chinese art and poetry.(11) Again your emphasis at this time should be to replace simple carbs and refined foods with less processed complex carbs for energy.(12) Her clothing style is subtler, and more refined .(13) They'd stripped the prototype engine out and were constructing a more refined version.(14) Second, Edwards developed a very refined understanding of Christ's office as the Mediator between God and man.(15) They're packaged as healthy foods and marketed as meal replacements, but these are highly refined foods; often, they have a lot of refined sugars.(16) Carrots contain quite large amounts of sugar, and have occasionally been used as a source of refined sugar; but in this role they cannot compare with the sweeter but otherwise useless sugar beet.