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Well-bred vs Polished - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between well-bred and polished

is that well-bred is well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education while polished is made smooth or shiny by polishing.

As a verb polished is

past tense of polish.

well-bred

English

Adjective

  • well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education
  • (of animals) of good breed

    • polished

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
  • Refined, elegant.
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    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished , pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

    Derived terms

    * impolished * perpolished * polishedly * polishedness * unpolished * well-polished

    Verb

    (head)
  • (polish)

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