polished (adj.)
- accomplished
- adept
- advanced
- archetypical
- burnished
- chaste
- civilized
- classic
- clear
- complete
- consummate
- converted
- courtly
- cultivated
- cultured
- dainty
- debonair
- delicate
- developed
- direct
- discriminating
- easy
- educated
- elegant
- embellished
- enhanced
- excellent
- exemplary
- exhaustive
- expert
- fastidious
- faultless
- fine
- finished
- flawless
- genteel
- gentle
- gentlemanlike
- gentlemanly
- gifted
- glace
- glassy
- glazed
- gleaming
- glistening
- glossy
- graceful
- gracile
- gracious
- impeccable
- improved
- ladylike
- limpid
- lucid
- lustrous
- masterful
- masterly
- mature
- matured
- model
- natural
- neat
- nice
- outstanding
- pellucid
- perfect
- perfected
- perspicuous
- plain
- polite
- proficient
- pure
- quintessential
- refined
- reformed
- restrained
- ripe
- ripened
- round
- rubbed
- satiny
- sheeny
- shining
- shiny
- silken
- silky
- simple
- sleek
- slick
- smarmy
- soignee
- sophisticated
- straightforward
- subtle
- superb
- superior
- superlative
- tasteful
- terse
- thorough
- transformed
- trim
- unaffected
- urbane
- varnished
- velvety
- virtuoso
- well-bred
- well-mannered
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
