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Definition: (adjective) unenthusiastic, routine, or mechanical.
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unpolished

adjective
  1. Not perfected, elaborated, or completed: preliminary, rough, sketchy, tentative, unfinished, unperfected. See start
  2. Lacking expert, careful craftsmanship: crude, primitive, raw, rough, rude. See good
  3. Lacking good manners: discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, rude, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly. See courtesy
  4. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, vulgar. See courtesy, smooth
  5. Of a plain and unsophisticated nature: artless, homely, homespun, natural, rustic, unadorned. See plain

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