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Definition

of bad taste — often crude or offensive

or:

unsophisticated (or common) — especially of taste

vulgarity = crudeness (showing of bad taste)

vulgar = crude or offensive

He was coarse and vulgar; he cussed man, God, and nature every day of his life.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

vulgar = crude and offensive

Yes, I must confess I am getting vulgar, but then, you see, I am drunk.
Anton Chekhov -- Uncle Vanya

vulgar = showing bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)

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.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End

vulgar = unsophisticated

No matter how vulgar a hotel is, the bar is always nice.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)

As if I'd ever given her grounds to believe I'd stoop to such vulgarity!
Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard

vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated behavior)

He was dressed as a man dresses who takes little other trouble about it than to have no vulgar things.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1

vulgar = of bad taste

There was something so crude and vulgar about everything of the kind.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

vulgar = of bad taste

By then they were both drunk, and I could hear Mother scream every vulgar phrase imaginable.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

vulgar = crude or offensive

vulgar = of bad taste — often crude or offensive

Troy is usually the most talkative and at times he can be crude and almost vulgar,
August Wilson -- Fences

vulgar = crude or offensive

vulgar = lacking in sophistication or good taste

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest

vulgar = in bad taste (unsophisticated or crude)

And yet you are right—it really is vulgar and contemptible.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground

vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)

What cared Isabel Archer for the vulgar judgments of obscure people?
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2

vulgar = unsophisticated

It was a triumph of irony for that outcast poet to die amid the trappings of vulgar respectability;
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage

vulgar = common (and so thought to be of unsophisticated)

They affect us just as vulgarity affects us.
Wilde, Oscar -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Be thou familiar; but by no means vulgar:
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet
I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots. My opinion of those accessories was not favorable. They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

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