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Discover LudwigThe phrase "slightly unrefined" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not fully polished or developed, often referring to ideas, skills, or products that need further refinement. Example: "The presentation was slightly unrefined, but it had great potential and interesting ideas."
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The engine is instantly responsive to the accelerator pedal, presenting the sort of rumpled, slightly unrefined character that endeared Captain James T. Kirk to green-skinned alien women across the galaxy.
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Honestly, admitting to my temporary cravings – none of which were seasonal, wholegrain or unrefined– is slightly embarrassing even now.
Meanwhile, the view of the movie-palace architecture and the brute urbanism of the Soviet-era version of Alexanderplatz depicts the charming charmlessness of the slightly and poorly adorned, calculatedly unrefined architecture of the East the architectural equivalent of bad haircuts and bad suits, the inverted cool of the hopelessly styleless.
Meanwhile, the view of the movie-palace architecture and the brute urbanism of the Soviet-era version of Alexanderplatz depicts the charming charmlessness of the slightly and poorly adorned, calculatedly unrefined architecture of the East — the architectural equivalent of bad haircuts and bad suits, the inverted cool of the hopelessly styleless.
The raw, unrefined form of trona, NaHCO3∙Na2CO3 (sodium sesquicarbonate) induced TAG accumulation, albeit to a slightly lower extent than the more refined forms of sodium bicarbonate.
As the Guardian's Xan Brooks said when the film was given a long overdue DVD release a couple of years ago: "Wise Blood feels like a first film: energetic, unrefined and a little off-kilter, as though the director was tussling with his material; slightly flying by the seat of his pants".
Unrefined sugar, naturally.
It's completely unrefined thought".
"It was 'cabbagey' and unrefined.
The crystals were large and unrefined.
My storecupboard staple is … unrefined sunflower oil.
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