All 14 Uses of
vulgar
in
Arrowsmith
- They did not acknowledge, as they ambled back into Mohalis, that the incident had occurred, but there was softness in their voices and without impatience now she heard his denunciation of Professor Robertshaw as a phonograph, and he listened to her remarks on the shallowness and vulgarity of Dr. Norman Brumfit, that sprightly English instructor.†
Chpt 3
- She complained of his vulgarity and what she asserted to be his slack ambition.†
Chpt 5
- "Martin Arrowsmith, if you think for one moment that I'm ever going to marry a vulgar, crude, selfish, microbe-grubbing smart aleck—"†
Chpt 5 *
- He was an eminent scientist, and it was outrageous that he should have to endure impudence from a probationer—a singularly vulgar probationer, a thin and slangy young woman apparently from the West.†
Chpt 6
- If she was vulgar, jocular, unreticent, she was also gallant, she was full of laughter at humbugs, she was capable of a loyalty too casual and natural to seem heroic.†
Chpt 6
- Gottlieb's gods are the cynics, the destroyers—crapehangers the vulgar call 'em: Diderot and Voltaire and Elser; great men, wonderworkers, yet men that had more fun destroying other people's theories than creating their own.†
Chpt 11
- W'hat if my advertising, my jollying of the public, does strike some folks as vulgar?†
Chpt 21
- Joust, the vulgar but competent bio-physicist, lacking the affection which kept Martin and Terry from reproaching the old man, told Gottlieb that he was a "rotten Director and ought to quit," and was straightway discharged and replaced by a muffin.†
Chpt 30
- I do not make funniness about humanitarianism as I used to; sometimes now I t'ink the vulgar and contentious human race may yet have as much grace and good taste as the cats.†
Chpt 32
- "You see, by having other people do the vulgar things for you, it saves your own energy for the things that only you can do," said Joyce.†
Chpt 38
- He was likely to turn abusive, particularly as to her definition of Big Men, and when he became hot and vulgar, she turned grande dame, so that he felt like an impertinent servant and was the more vulgar.†
Chpt 39
- He was likely to turn abusive, particularly as to her definition of Big Men, and when he became hot and vulgar, she turned grande dame, so that he felt like an impertinent servant and was the more vulgar.†
Chpt 39
- "Please don't be vulgar."†
Chpt 40
- Matter of fact, I haven't been vulgar enough lately.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste