All 5 Uses of
vulgar
in
Bleak House
- I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Who in mere lackadaisical want of an emotion have agreed upon a little dandy talk about the vulgar wanting faith in things in general, meaning in the things that have been tried and found wanting, as though a low fellow should unaccountably lose faith in a bad shilling after finding it out!†
Chpt 10-12
- Who would make the vulgar very picturesque and faithful by putting back the hands upon the clock of time and cancelling a few hundred years of history.†
Chpt 10-12
- It develops vulgarity.†
Chpt 13-15
- Other men's fathers may have died of the rheumatism or may have taken base contagion from the tainted blood of the sick vulgar, but the Dedlock family have communicated something exclusive even to the levelling process of dying by dying of their own family gout.†
Chpt 16-18
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste