All 10 Uses of
vulgar
in
Emma
- But if he marries a very ignorant, vulgar woman, certainly I had better not visit her, if I can help it.†
Chpt 1.3-4 *
- He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- —_You_ confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life!†
Chpt 1.7-8
- There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- Just as they always do—very vulgar.†
Chpt 2.9-10
- —I think they are, without exception, the most vulgar girls in Highbury.†
Chpt 2.9-10
- The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an _introduction_—of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's—probably some vulgar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live!†
Chpt 2.13-14
- A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- How can she find any appellation for them, deep enough in familiar vulgarity?†
Chpt 2.15-16
- Think, then, what I must have endured in hearing it bandied between the Eltons with all the vulgarity of needless repetition, and all the insolence of imaginary superiority.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste