(a.) Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
(a.) Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.
(n.) Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
(n.) An unpolished, rustic person.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
(2) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
(3) It is the kind of homespun talk that could win over voters, but they don't appear to be listening to her or McCain.
(4) The pastoral address ignored the culture wars and instead veered between piety, homespun advice and laughs – including a line about mothers-in-law.
(5) Hodgson, by contrast, has quietly decommissioned his dream of playing Doctor Who , because: “I fear I have this curse of looking a bit like David Tennant , and that may scupper things.” And yet, it was Lance Armstrong’s story – or at least, a homespun Yorkshire take on it – that bagged this gentle young joker an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination this summer.
(6) Labour's very accusation, though, illustrated the huge commercial power, translating surely into political influence, that has been built from a pastime as homespun as watching football on television.
(7) That’s a dog.” I tell him about my quest: a search for the perfect funky small American town, a place with a buzzing homespun coffee shop and a great little deli, a town with some youthful exuberance and a shared passion for the great outdoors – plus, of course, friendly bookshops such as his.
(8) Television host and opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak compared him to Batman for his reputation of fighting evildoers and called him a "strong Russian guy" in reference to his brawny physique and homespun charm.
(9) Using a homespun remedy favoured by demonstrators, the man treated his bloodshot eyes with a towel soaked in apple cider vinegar.
(10) By the time Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone kept breaking their promises to abolish the income tax (one of the few things they agreed on), the homespun capitalism of the 18th century had already given way to a more organised form of capitalism.
(11) With its cosy homespun charm, this is the perfect spot to finish the trek, but in the morning I have one more treat in store.
(12) Homespun values … Obama and Robinson Obama went on to quiz the novelist on her family and upbringing, and on the “certain set of homespun values of hard work and honesty and humility” held by her parents.
(13) "At first, I respected him for his homespun politics, his spit-and-sawdust grit and his passion," said Danczuk.
(14) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
(15) And then there was the opposition between the homespun, handcrafted vision of art for Morris and the bloated global money-laundering business of it, which many of those oligarchs have bought into.
(16) Building on what seems an uncontestable and homespun truth, he made the moral claim that because “every single pound of public money is private earning… what is morally wrong is [a] government spending money like it grows on trees”.
(17) But this reliance on homespun wisdom can also fuel a worryingly anti-intellectual streak in public life, a sense that empirical discovery and a spirit of inquiry are somehow to be sneered at.
(18) The rather homespun website set up by her parents had 80m visits in the first three months after her disappearance.
(19) And there's a plain, homespun quality about him that's reminiscent of that other great Jimmy, the patron saint of small-town American life: Jimmy Stewart.
(20) Everywhere you look, there are signs of homespun innovation, of the defiant brand of resilience that Cubans have shown repeatedly over a long history of oppression: Take away our fuel supply and, yes, we will go back to buggy whips and gallop past you in your rent-a-car on our pothole-riddled roads.
Unpolished
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The unpolished surfaces were analyzed with the Taylor-Hobson Talysurf 10 surface texture measuring instrument.
(2) Measurements were made on both the unpolished matrix-rich surface and the polished filler-rich surface.
(3) We studied the anterior surfaces of 30 soft contact lenses (10 lathe cut [polished]; 10 spin cast [unpolished], and 10 cast molded [unpolished]) of the same polymer and water content.
(4) Silicon and phosphorus contents in polished and unpolished rice planted in a district of high incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been determined by neutron activation and X-ray fluorescence methods, and compared with those from control areas.
(5) The average hardness of the polished surface was higher than that of the unpolished surface.
(6) This study indicates that, composite restorative materials and unpolished surfaces tend to be more highly colonized by S. mutans, than metallic and polished surfaces.
(7) The dissolution of mercury, silver, and copper from polished and unpolished surfaces of low- and high-copper amalgams into saline was investigated with respect to time via atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(8) The unpolished surfaces also show small rounded units, which aggregate into rods of mineral approximately 100 nm across.
(9) Average recoveries ranged from 74.7% for disulfoton to 97.4% for malathion in unpolished rice and from 68.1% for disulfoton to 108.3% for malathion in other crops.
(10) They were then divided into two groups, polished and unpolished, in an effort to determine the total influence of the polishing procedure on clasp behavior.
(11) After immersion of unpolished and polished high copper amalgam in saliva with different pH values for up to 12 weeks, the elements mercury, tin, copper, silver and antimony were analysed in the solution.
(12) Collaborative analytical studies on the elemental composition of the rice flour-unpolished reference material were conducted using various analytical techniques which lead to the certification.
(13) To confirm their result, seven unpolished rice samples obtained just after harvesting were analyzed for 3H.
(14) The much-missed Entourage, currently set for a big screen revival in 2015, is about a young "it" actor from the wrong side of New York who moves to Los Angeles with a group of equally unpolished friends after hitting it big in Hollywood.
(15) For patients less than 80 years old (390 patients), the cumulative capsulotomy rate in the polished capsule group was 9.2% (36 eyes); in the unpolished capsule group the rate was 12.0% (47 eyes) for the same follow-up time (average 30 months).
(16) The buffering capacity of some Nigerian local food substances was investigated using a modification of Toveys method (1974), Beans (red, and white), maize, rice (unprocessed with hull) and rice (unpolished) appeared to have high buffering capacity while yam, cassava and polished rice all showed weak buffering capacity.
(17) The effect of the sealing material employed (polished red stopper and unpolished black stopper) was observed, as well as time of contact between the solutions and rubber stoppers and latex slides, and the method of bottle conditioning (vertical or horizontal position) which permits contact of the solutions with the rubber stoppers.
(18) Greater amounts of mercury and silver were released from unpolished than from polished surfaces.
(19) The unpolished rice was pulverized, oven-dried, homogenized and finally packaged into 1000 glass bottles.
(20) The surface texture of restorations of composite resin with porous strontium glass filler was nearly as smooth as that of enamel and was significantly smoother than that of the restorations of composite resin with zinc glass filler or of unpolished amalgam.