All 11 Uses of
vulgar
in
Main Street
- But his brick house with the mansard roof was still the largest residence in town, and he held his position as squire by occasionally appearing among the younger men and reminding them by a wintry eye that without the banker none of them could carry on their vulgar businesses.†
Chpt 4
- "Can't they at least understand me well enough to see that though I might be affected and culturine, at least I simply couldn't commit that other kind of vulgarity?†
Chpt 8
- She remembered, and tried to forget, and remembered more sharply the vulgar detail of her husband's having observed the ancient customs of the land by chewing tobacco.†
Chpt 9 *
- You are the immutable vulgar young female.†
Chpt 14
- Aside from the vulgarity——Some ways, Vida is my best friend.†
Chpt 14
- "Please don't be quite so colloquial—or shall I say VULGAR?"†
Chpt 14
- She could—at times—agree with Kennicott that the shaving-and-corsets familiarity of married life was not dreary vulgarity but a wholesome frankness; that artificial reticences might merely be irritating.†
Chpt 15
- She too thinks the men are vulgar and limited!†
Chpt 15
- He speaks a vulgar, common, incorrect German of life and death and birth and the soil.†
Chpt 15
- She wanted people to believe that her husband and she were accustomed to luxury and chill elegance; she was faintly angry at him for the vulgar way in which, after signing the register "Dr.†
Chpt 17
- She suddenly understood that they could be depended upon to laugh with her at Mrs. Bogart, and she now saw Juanita Haydock's gossip not as vulgarity but as gaiety and remarkable analysis.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste