All 9 Uses of
vulgar
in
Notes from the Underground
- To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral.†
Chpt 1.1
- It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.†
Chpt 1.8
- The coat in itself was a very good one, it kept me warm; but it was wadded and it had a raccoon collar which was the height of vulgarity.†
Chpt 2.1
- And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.†
Chpt 2.2
- You will say that it is vulgar and contemptible to drag all this into public after all the tears and transports which I have myself confessed.†
Chpt 2.2
- And yet you are right--it really is vulgar and contemptible.
Chpt 2.2 *vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering.†
Chpt 2.3
- Of Simonov's two visitors, one was Ferfitchkin, a Russianised German--a little fellow with the face of a monkey, a blockhead who was always deriding everyone, a very bitter enemy of mine from our days in the lower forms--a vulgar, impudent, swaggering fellow, who affected a most sensitive feeling of personal honour, though, of course, he was a wretched little coward at heart.†
Chpt 2.3
- In fact, in the end it seemed vulgar to me myself, and I began putting out my tongue at myself.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste