beachcombed

Example:While beachcombers happily scavenge, collectors prefer to purchase refined and authenticated antiques.

Definition:Having undergone a process of improvement that makes something more beautiful, noble, or appropriate; doing something in a careful and orderly way, opposite to the carefree and often destructive nature of beachcombing.

Example:To a proper collector, the rough collections gathered by beachcombers for money or fun would seem unsuitable for museum display.

Definition:Completely appropriate, suitable, and right, often in a specific context, contrasting with the random or messy profusion that beachcombers might create by collecting items.