overrefined

adjective

over·​re·​fined ˌō-vər-ri-ˈfīnd 

: excessively refined

… appears to be attempting to shed his overrefined appearance to demonstrate … he can hurl partisan vitriol with the best of them.

—David Catanese

… its clichéd reputation … as the most overrefined, overcivilized, repressed nation on Earth, a place of raised pinkies and cakes …

—Russell Smith

Our version switches out the potatoes for yams and the overrefined vegetable oil for coconut oil …

—Margaret Floyd and James Barry

overrefinement

ˌō-vər-ri-ˈfīn-mənt 

noun

plural overrefinements

… a boy some seventeen years of age, with his hands all skinned and sore from having picked corn in the cornfield, in those days when a glove was an overrefinement …

—Francis G. Blair

Examples of overrefined in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Jenkins’s overrefined sense of black history — a pageant of fabulous nightmares — is the real extravagance in The Underground Railroad. —Armond White, National Review, 12 May 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1709, in the meaning defined above