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Scurrilous vs Refined - What's the difference?

scurrilous | refined |

As adjectives the difference between scurrilous and refined

is that scurrilous is (of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed while refined is showing or having good feelings or good taste.

As a verb refined is

(refine).

scurrilous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed
  • (of language) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous
  • * 2014 July 29, " On chutzpah and war," Aljazeera.com (retrieved 29 July 2014):
    • Perhaps the greatest chutzpah is the term itself, moving from scurrilous origins to something admirable.

    Related terms

    * scurrile * scurrilously * scurrilousness * scurrility

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    refined

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
  • An absence of coarseness.
  • Not vulgar.
  • Without impurities.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (refine)
    • The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.

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