All 11 Uses of
vulgar
in
The House of Mirth
- He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay.†
Chpt 1.1
- Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, and she liked to picture herself as standing aloof from the vulgar press of the Quirinal, and sacrificing her pleasure to the claims of an immemorial tradition….†
Chpt 1.3
- Her vulgar cares were at an end.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Last night I couldn't get near you—I went to that damned vulgar party just to see you, and there was everybody talking about you, and asking me if I'd ever seen anything so stunning, and when I tried to come up and say a word, you never took any notice, but just went on laughing and joking with a lot of asses who only wanted to be able to swagger about afterward, and look knowing when you were mentioned."†
Chpt 1.13
- He was no less conscious than before of what was said of Lily Bart, but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her.†
Chpt 1.14
- I know there's one thing vulgar about money, and that's the thinking about it; and my wife would never have to demean herself in that way."†
Chpt 1.15
- If she'd be natural herself—fat and vulgar and bouncing—it would be all right; but as soon as she meets anybody smart she tries to be slender and queenly.†
Chpt 2.1
- The truth was that her funds, as usual, were inconveniently low; and to neither Dorset nor his wife could this vulgar embarrassment be safely hinted.†
Chpt 2.2
- But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop; and it was easier for Lily to let Mrs. Fisher formulate her case than to put it plainly to herself.†
Chpt 2.7
- But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop; and it was easier for Lily to let Mrs. Fisher formulate her case than to put it plainly to herself.†
Chpt 2.7
- She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste