She's elegant and refined.

She is elegant and refined.

Mary feared that her lap dog could not be the excuse for all of her emissions, especially when other cohabitants possessed refined senses. Half a cup of pâté with every meal would suffice, she figured, to fool any would-be Sherlock.

In this democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered the best, regardless of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful.

Yanni refined his painting technique.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

You always tell us how refined your tastes are, and yet you listen to that trash?

Can you eat chicken-fried steak, or is that too lowbrow for your refined palate?

Algeria can refine petroleum.

Is Algeria's iron cheap to refine?