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  • This school is a center of vulgarity and obscenity and they take girls for picnics to different resorts.†   (source)
  • It was a disgusting low-class habit, and the nurse should have consulted her before encouraging me in such vulgar behavior.†   (source)
  • Cirrus clouds tinged by a faint sunset, drifting high above the vulgar intensities of birds and flowers and such.†   (source)
  • On the way back, one of Ye's colleagues recited from Chairman Mao's essay "Remembering Bethune": "Noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests."†   (source)
  • The cook replied with unbelievable vulgarity.†   (source)
  • Whenever Rasheed uttered her daughter's name, it came out sounding unwholesome to Laila, almost vulgar.†   (source)
  • Try this on and don't be vulgar," Mother said as she broke the thread with her teeth.†   (source)
  • Let us simply agree that it was a most vulgar statement.†   (source)
  • It seemed to say: If you thought that last bump was vulgar, honey, watch this one!†   (source)
  • "She's vulgar," Elayna replied.†   (source)
  • It's vulgar.†   (source)
  • At the moment, despite her dislike of vulgar language, Grandmother appeared almost charmed by Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • She was a haughty, vulgar, utterly impertinent assassin.†   (source)
  • Moreo was shouting in the vulgar Valyrian of the Free Cities.†   (source)
  • Vulgarly put, but what comfort, what untroubled years might flow from these cheap vats.†   (source)
  • Questions signified a vulgar display of ignorance.†   (source)
  • And so Butler went against his training, screaming like a demon and utilizing the most vulgar combat actions.†   (source)
  • Even my name was too vulgar to be spoken.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, Henny has a girlfriend named Beppy who's a bad influence on her because she's dirty and vulgar.†   (source)
  • Pardon the vulgarity.†   (source)
  • For twenty years this field had embodied all the waste that was Vietnam, all the vulgarity and horror.†   (source)
  • I soon discovered, however, that most of my neighbors here on the wrong side of both sets of tracks were sympathetic to my written assaults on what one of them called "the gauche and vulgar among us."†   (source)
  • Nothing vulgar or heretical.†   (source)
  • Unless you were doing it just to be vulgar ...†   (source)
  • He yanks me by the wrist, thrusting his pelvis at me in a vulgar way, and I can see my hand in an endless slow motion rise—a mind all its own—and come down on the astonished, made-up face.†   (source)
  • His face would turn red and he'd become vulgar and mean.†   (source)
  • My mother thought that was vulgar.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, you do command ancillaries and not vulgar human troops, which the old-fashioned deplore just as much as they deplore the scions of obscure, nobody houses getting assigned as officers.†   (source)
  • All such advertisements upon their face bear the marks of vulgarity, nor do we regard it safe for any lady to answer such unseemly utterances.†   (source)
  • What's vulgar, Mom?†   (source)
  • The call just after midnight from the NAACP didn't really disturb us because we were already receiving a series of late night calls from segregationists who were loud and vulgar in their views.†   (source)
  • The better the human, as he would say in his vulgar way, the more he liked it.†   (source)
  • Arbatov did not permit himself to be surprised by the vulgarity.†   (source)
  • She replied that such wastefulness was certainly a mortal sin and that God would punish all of them for spending on nouveau riche vulgarities what they should be giving to the poor.†   (source)
  • During a heated game outside Atlanta, players and even some parents directed a vulgar racial epithet at Fugees players from the sideline.†   (source)
  • She did not permit herself the vulgarity of remorse.†   (source)
  • There were girls who'd come up to my dad and mom and direct vulgarities at them, followed by, "What are you gonna do about it?"†   (source)
  • A couple more years and it might be too late"— he gave a rather vulgar laugh — "Better go on up while you still can."†   (source)
  • He'd changed out of the gladiator armor and was now wearing a Hawaiian shirt that even Dionysus would've found vulgar.†   (source)
  • She told Annie her life in "The Colonies" had given her vulgar, slovenly ways which she set about curing by sending her to bed with no supper and smacking her legs, for the most trivial of crimes, with a long-handled wooden spoon.†   (source)
  • A heave of his body produced a vulgar laugh through gold-trimmed teeth, a laugh which he cut off when he saw the nun was about to collapse.†   (source)
  • Around him there were cries in the night and, from the alehouses, vulgar laughter.†   (source)
  • But the rest of the staff sits there glaring at him like he's said some awful vulgar thing.†   (source)
  • He hesitated then, and guessing at what troubled him, Nasuada said, "But you are worried that such a motto may be too vulgar for men of your position, and you would prefer something more noble and high-minded, am I right?"†   (source)
  • She has such a way with vulgar language.†   (source)
  • She knew she was being unfair (the dog was not asleep); she knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.†   (source)
  • If his look had contained contempt or patronage, or any of the vulgar emotions revealed by adults in confrontation with children, I would have easily gone back to my book, but his eyes gave off a watery nothing—a nothingness which was completely unbearable.†   (source)
  • She would have been perfect for Yossarian, a debauched, coarse, vulgar, amoral, appetizing slattern whom he had longed for and idolized for months.†   (source)
  • She was the one who taught me that people who use crude and vulgar words only do it because they don't have the vocabulary or the desire to describe things as they truly are.†   (source)
  • "Did I make any vulgar noises?" she asks.†   (source)
  • He did not use the word "genitalia," but rather a vulgarity.†   (source)
  • From the Nevada border it was a short drive down into Reno, which he considered a vulgar, aging cowboy town.†   (source)
  • He's vulgar, crude, profane, dirty, and he smokes the filthiest cigars ever made.†   (source)
  • At that time, Jackie Kennedy thought the boat vulgar and was particularly disgusted by the bar stool covers made of whale scrotums.†   (source)
  • Vulgar expression.†   (source)
  • Spoken Japanese is full of disrespectful insult words that can be much more cutting than mere vulgarity.†   (source)
  • of forty years' unceasing engagement in the turbulent and triumphant scenes, both at home and in Europe, which have marked our history; learned in the language and arts of diplomacy; more conversant with the views, jealousies, resources, and intrigues of Great Britain, France and Holland than any other American; alike aloof to flattery and vulgar ambition, as above all undue control [he has as] ....his sole object ....the present freedom and independence of his country and its future glory.†   (source)
  • She can never be vulgar, as I am about to be.†   (source)
  • Ira, whose discomfort amidst women was deeply ingrained, thought it vulgar for Pauline to be pursuing Rene so publicly.†   (source)
  • ...I think there ought to be some kind of public...protest against vulgarity, against bad usage, against bad manners, against the uneducated dictating to i:he educated.†   (source)
  • Whenever I am tempted to dismiss the poor or uneducated for their vulgar tastes, I see the face of old Auntie Braxton, as she stands stock still in front of our picket fence, lips parted to reveal her almost toothless gums, eyes shining, drinking in a polonaise as though it were heavenly nourishment.†   (source)
  • They're too — well, most editors would call them vulgar.†   (source)
  • You haven't told me a single one of those vulgar jokes.†   (source)
  • Your mother is a moer"—moer being a vulgar term for an intimate part of a woman's anatomy.†   (source)
  • She'd been taught to remain cool and composed, never to raise her voice, never to show any vulgar signs of temper.†   (source)
  • No, you're vulgar.†   (source)
  • My mind immediately conjured up a series of vulgar programs, the kind that always made me wonder how their producers could sleep at night.†   (source)
  • Found self explaining polyandries, clans, groups, lines, and less common patterns considered vulgar by conservative people such as my own family—deal my mother set up, say, after she ticked off my old man, though didn't describe that one; Mother was always too extreme.†   (source)
  • He had studied the graffiti on the outer walls of subway cars, noting especially the crude, sexually explicit drawings and the vulgar words that his dictionary did contain.†   (source)
  • The emails contain vulgar sexual innuendos.†   (source)
  • The King of Italy didn't want to be heard in conversation about as vulgar a thing as money, so he would walk with Bellati to a quiet place out of earshot but in full view, and there confer with him as others looked on in envy.†   (source)
  • "Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.†   (source)
  • Otherwise"—and here I twisted my face into one of the spoiled grimaces I remembered from my father-in-law's concubines—"I will say that I found no hospitality from this family, only avarice, inconsideration, and vulgarity" Such a tremendous risk I took that day!†   (source)
  • A vulgar word, Irene would say.†   (source)
  • It seems like a return to the days of the priests of Baal, so vulgar and disgusting do these perversities appear.'†   (source)
  • Nothing pornographic or even that vulgar.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: Vulgar girl!†   (source)
  • After they left, I stayed on the wall for a few minutes, their laughter and Johnny Wayne's vulgar confession replaying in my head.†   (source)
  • ZOOEY THE facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.†   (source)
  • Has Theresa ever heard the word, uh, that particular vulgarity that we beasts use for sexual intercourse?†   (source)
  • He was talkative full of gossip and stories, profane, vulgar and friendly.†   (source)
  • Liza ignored the vulgarity.†   (source)
  • Across the pastures, the incredible vulgarity of highly amplified hillbilly music drifted from the cafe on the highway.†   (source)
  • As such is it often known to the vulgar, and do not call me 'madam' in the same breath-it smacks of an ancient jest.†   (source)
  • Mistakenly, I had expected a stereotyped vulgarity.†   (source)
  • But the Depression came along, and Bel Air decided to take even the money of the vulgar and crass.†   (source)
  • Among ourselves we scoffed at the vulgarity and pathos of that African lust for gold.†   (source)
  • For some reason, they called the domain of the sensual, which disturbed them so much, "vulgar," and used the expression in and out of place.†   (source)
  • Harlots and Hunted have pleasures of their own to give, The vulgar herd can never understand.†   (source)
  • My father says he's vulgar.†   (source)
  • So vulgar!†   (source)
  • They're silly and vulgar and-and sentimental.†   (source)
  • There had been no words spoken among these people, but I began to comprehend a progression, a circle of answers, which they were flinging toward one another in their own way, in the confusion of vulgarity and hatred which twined among them all like a wreath of steam rising from the wet sand.†   (source)
  • Some are vulgar demagogues ....some are men of wealth who have purchased their position ....[some are] men of narrow intellect, limited comprehension, and low partisan prejudice...And still earlier a member of the Senate itself told his colleagues that "the confidence of the people is departing from us, owing to our unreasonable delays."†   (source)
  • Chooka stopped in the middle of the floor, looking much like a vulgar Medusa, then lifted her arms in what was intended for a sweeping mystic gesture.†   (source)
  • No matter how vulgar a hotel is, the bar is always nice.   (source)
    vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • There was something so crude and vulgar about everything of the kind.   (source)
    vulgar = of bad taste
  • Yes, I must confess I am getting vulgar, but then, you see, I am drunk.   (source)
    vulgar = showing bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • What cared Isabel Archer for the vulgar judgments of obscure people?   (source)
    vulgar = unsophisticated
  • And yet you are right--it really is vulgar and contemptible.   (source)
    vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • he looks vulgar in his finery,   (source)
    vulgar = lacking in sophistication or good taste
  • It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.   (source)
    vulgar = unsophisticated
  • He was dressed as a man dresses who takes little other trouble about it than to have no vulgar things.   (source)
    vulgar = of bad taste
  • He had gotten his fix, if you wanted to be perfectly vulgar about it.†   (source)
  • To accuse her of theft would be not only brutal, but vulgar.†   (source)
  • Meme was bothered by the vulgarity of that.†   (source)
  • He dismissed them as "childish, vulgar, flaunting, or impertinent, out of place and discordant."†   (source)
  • And of course someone from a lower house is going to be ill-bred and have a vulgar accent.†   (source)
  • Shi, who appeared so vulgar and careless, had eyes as sharp as knives.†   (source)
  • Tell me what a monster I am; what a vulgar fiend' " 'I make no judgments upon you.†   (source)
  • Never raise your voice to a waiter, it's vulgar.†   (source)
  • It was catchy, and vulgar, and mean-spirited.†   (source)
  • Vulgar they may have been, but that's not to say they weren't effective.†   (source)
  • Compared to Three Body, reality is so vulgar and unexciting.†   (source)
  • He knew the chest in which we slept; it struck him as vulgar.†   (source)
  • I mean, not just when we were young and provincials are vulgar but the aptitudes are corrupt?†   (source)
  • Besides, it's chock full of Tehlu, so no one will complain about it being vulgar.†   (source)
  • I then apologized in excruciating detail about every vulgar, petty innuendo included in the song.†   (source)
  • Is he implying that I am purposefully being vulgar in such company?†   (source)
  • "Don't be vulgar," says Cordelia, in her adult voice.†   (source)
  • It feels terrible to have a great scholar like Graetz call Hasidism vulgar and disgusting.†   (source)
  • "How vulgar," my chaperone, Mrs. Tuttle, says.†   (source)
  • It sounded vulgar and defiant, a good thing to repeat when you needed courage.†   (source)
  • He called from the rear of the house, "I heard that, you vulgar girl.†   (source)
  • I've been reading her like mad, and no vulgar remarks, please.†   (source)
  • You, the purest and most moral man among them, have been sneered at as a 'vulgar materialist.'†   (source)
  • Poopie's not vulgar," I said defensively.†   (source)
  • She looked a bit vulgar, to put it mildly.†   (source)
  • That's pretty strong language, 'vulgar and disgusting.'†   (source)
  • ....You can't be so vulgar and ....and undignified!†   (source)
  • "How vulgar," Felicity whispers, but she sits.†   (source)
  • "Just as melody is a primitive vulgarity in music," said Mort Liddy.†   (source)
  • Just as logic is a primitive vulgarity in philosophy.†   (source)
  • Cowper answered with surprising vulgarity and added, "I'm boss; I go last.†   (source)
  • We prefer the safer method of metaphysical geometries—or 'magic' in the vulgar speech.†   (source)
  • He could have been bored by his vulgar humanness, but he was beyond it.†   (source)
  • Harlots and Hunted have pleasures of their own to give, The vulgar herd can never understand.†   (source)
  • "He sounds vulgar," said the man from Connemara.†   (source)
  • Even if you won, it would be vulgar, and a man like you can't afford vulgarity.†   (source)
  • Even if you won, it would be vulgar, and a man like you can't afford vulgarity.†   (source)
  • How could you be so vulgar?†   (source)
  • But they had been here before, and had had some pretty hot necking session-what she thought of as Scotch love and what he would call, in his unfailing ability to pinpoint the vulgar, the dry humps.†   (source)
  • She was not going to have the boy out with that bunch of men for two weeks, listening to a lot of vulgar talk and jokes about sex and seeing what animals men could turn into when they got to drinking nonstop over a period of days and weeks.†   (source)
  • Forgive me this vulgarity, Mr. Markos, but the mere act of urinating turned into a test of endurance.†   (source)
  • Her severity made the house a redoubt of old customs in a town convulsed by the vulgarity with which the outsiders squandered their easy fortunes.†   (source)
  • It's vulgar.†   (source)
  • With boys, Caroline O'Day was as aggressive as a Corvette, and Maureen Early enjoyed her company because Mr. Early thought the O'Days were vulgar.†   (source)
  • Immediately I was filled with a vulgar curiosity, the sort that movie stars suffer from at the hands of their fans.†   (source)
  • How is it vulgar?†   (source)
  • Vulgar?†   (source)
  • These girls can be so vulgar.†   (source)
  • From then on he was kept in the cage even during the daytime, in defiance of the vulgar belief that caged parrots forget everything they have learned, and let out only in the four o'clock coolness for his classes with Dr. Urbino on the terrace in the patio.†   (source)
  • The superscription "The Handmaid's Tale" was appended to it by Professor Wade, partly in homage to the great Geoffrey Chaucer; but those of you who know Professor Wade informally, as I do, will understand when I say that I am sure all puns were intentional, particularly that having to do with the archaic vulgar signification of the word tail; that being, to some extent, the bone, as it were, of contention, in that phase of Gileadean society of which our saga treats.†   (source)
  • There was even some vulgar whistling.†   (source)
  • He viewed them as instruments for the uneducated, and purveyors of sinister influences and vulgar ideas.†   (source)
  • Mrs. van D. wheeled around and gave me a tonguelashing: hard, Germanic, mean and vulgar, exactly like some fat, red-faced fishwife.†   (source)
  • What can be gained from looking, Simon asks himself; apart, that is, from a vulgar frisson, and the indulgence of morbid interest?†   (source)
  • Dear Muslim brothers There is a school, the Khushal School, which is run by an NGO [NGOs have a very bad reputation among religious people in our country so this was a way to invite people's wrath] and is a center of vulgarity and obscenity.†   (source)
  • Shit is a vulgar word.†   (source)
  • Bold rather than vulgar.†   (source)
  • Despite the vulgarity of the words, for many years afterward Dr. Juvenal Urbino would request it at Social Club dances to prove he was a good sport.†   (source)
  • Merry-go-rounds, Red Hots, root beer, shooting galleries, beauty contests, public bathing: in a word, vulgar diversions.†   (source)
  • She preferred not to torment her daughter with earthly demands, for she had a premonition that her daughter was a heavenly being, and that she was not destined to last very long in the vulgar traffic of this world.†   (source)
  • Everything is new and brisk, bustling and bright, vulgar and complacent, with a smell of fresh money and fresh paint about it.†   (source)
  • Here is the scene I read to Owen Meany: " 'Do you mean to say,' Mrs. Satterthwaite said, 'that Sylvia would do anything vulgar?'†   (source)
  • He will frappe it just enough so the guests can blow the foam off the tops of the glasses without a vulgar exhibition of lung and lip power.†   (source)
  • The luxury of those rooms in the hotel seemed vulgar, but more than that, meaningless, beside this room.†   (source)
  • Other boys displayed kissing techniques in lobbies, risked "copping a feel" in coat rooms, defied the chaperones' quick censure of anything as vulgar as sticking a tongue in a girl's ear.†   (source)
  • Despite the perpetual rain, the sordid merchants, and the Homeric vulgarity of its carriage drivers, she would always remember Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, not because of what it was or was not in reality, but because it was linked to the memory of her happiest years.†   (source)
  • While I hesitated, not wishing to let her know I'd caught her in this vulgar act, she snapped the compact shut and slipped it into her shiny green alligator purse as if there was nothing to it.†   (source)
  • Mutiny winked at, but one can't make a plain statement of fact about the dangers of promoting the ill-bred and vulgar to positions of authority, or policies that encourage the most vile sort of behavior, and even undermine everything civilization has always stood for, without losing business contacts or promotions.†   (source)
  • I had a feeling things weren't turning out the way we had planned and that the situation was slipping away from me, but at the time I kept my doubts to myself, reasoning that three days are very few to put a country back together and that probably the vulgar officer who received me at the Ministry of Defense represented an insignificant minority within the armed forces.†   (source)
  • This was a password: it meant that Winifred was an arriviste — new money, brash and vulgar — and that I should be standing up for some other set of values.†   (source)
  • They will attack you as if you were human' "Celeste shuddered, uttering something in contempt, an aristocrat speaking of vulgar cousins who bear the same name.†   (source)
  • There was even some scattered applause, which Grandmother quieted with a well-aimed glower; respect, in the form of awe—preferably, silent awe—was something she courted, but hand-clapping was, under the circumstances, vulgar.†   (source)
  • "I forgot that it hits some people this way," I said lamely "I recommend scutten," Wilem said bluntly "Cut-tail, if you insist on the vulgar.†   (source)
  • Within a few hours, the earthquake had brought her face to face with violence, death, and vulgarity and had put her in touch with the basic needs to which she had been oblivious.†   (source)
  • Later, returning home, he regaled Blanca with accounts of the vulgarity of these stale, out-of-date families, whose daughters were still chaperoned and whose gentlemen wore scapulars.†   (source)
  • Nothing vulgar, mind you.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Walker being vulgar!†   (source)
  • These resented the ascendancy of the women, and grumbled about them or made vulgar jokes, and in their turn the women considered them weaklings or slackers and held them in ill-disguised contempt.†   (source)
  • All was served and presented with the utmost simplicity by the old servants of the house, who wore their everyday black aprons to give the celebration the appearance of a simple family gathering, because any display of extravagance was a sign of vulgarity that would be condemned as a sin of vanity and bad taste, according to the austere and somewhat lugubrious ancestry of that society descended from hard-working Basque and Spanish immigrants.†   (source)
  • I was taken aback by this vulgarity — it was at odds with his dinner-party politeness — but perhaps it was a sample of the orphanish jeering Reenie had predicted.†   (source)
  • He was the guy who created the Youth International Party, the "Yippies"; he was very active in antiwar protests, while at the same time he conceived of a meaningful revolution as roughly anything that conveyed irreverence with comedy and vulgarity "WHO DOES THIS JERK THINK HE'S HELPING?"†   (source)
  • Or how vulgar.†   (source)
  • But her talk was also not vulgar or harshly provincial-sounding as was the other girls'; she was obviously educated, and quite well, and this compelled me even more, though it shouldn't have.†   (source)
  • The odd asymmetry of the woman who looked like a giraffe and a stork continued to excite his memory: the combination of the flirtatious and the gawky; the very real sexual desire offset by the ironic smile; the vulgar conventionality of the flat and the originality of its owner.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Barlowe was correct in her assertion that Dunwoody did not indulge in the vulgar practice of criminal defense.†   (source)
  • or in plain vulgar English, a scolding?†   (source)
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