Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not fine; shabby.
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Examples
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The unfine print of Mr. Obama's order is that he's allowed room for what might be called a Jack Bauer exception.
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An unfine romance: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschenl in (500) Days of Summer
She's Just Not That Into You: Surprise! (500) Days of Summer is a Typical Romantic Comedy After All 2009
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An unfine romance: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschenl in (500) Days of Summer
She's Just Not That Into You: Surprise! (500) Days of Summer is a Typical Romantic Comedy After All 2009
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An unfine romance: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschenl in (500) Days of Summer
She's Just Not That Into You: Surprise! (500) Days of Summer is a Typical Romantic Comedy After All 2009
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Washington: It was a scene that Mary McCarthy could have written the devil out of: a funeral for a fine, bland fellow that filled everybody with unfine, unbland thoughts.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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"No, " I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be.
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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"No, " I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be.
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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The ethically-minded man is one who endeavors to shake off the yoke of custom, wherever it interferes with the affirmation of the great principles of life; who disdains to follow the multitude in doing not only what is palpably wrong, but what is morally unfine.
The Essentials of Spirituality Felix Adler 1892
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The birthday was far from being such a show; empty and unfine as possible.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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Perhaps too it may come by new and unfine Cyder, Perry, or Peach-drink, which the People are impatient to Drink before they are ready; or by the excessive use of Lime-Juice, and foul Sugar in Punch and Flip; or else by the constant drinking of uncorrected Beer, made of such windy, unwholsom things, as some People make use of in Brewing.
The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
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