Meaning of sand off | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make smooth or blunt by sandpapering.
2. To remove the rough elements or imperfections from.
   figuratively

Examples

“Some so-called establishment Republicans, alarmed by the rise of the ethnonationalist wing of the party, comfort themselves with the belief that this movement can be domesticated, absorbed into the traditional coalition with its sharp edges sanded off.”

“De Niro veers dangerously close to caricature—making chirpy noises, always tilting his head, adding dashes of comedy—yet he ends up personifying evil while never sanding off the edges of this horrible man or trying to explain away his misdeeds with a humanist approach.”

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