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vulgar
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  • By then they were both drunk, and I could hear Mother scream every vulgar phrase imaginable.  (source)
  • He was coarse and vulgar; he cussed man, God, and nature every day of his life.  (source)
    vulgar = crude and offensive
  • No matter how vulgar a hotel is, the bar is always nice.  (source)
    vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
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  • It was a triumph of irony for that outcast poet to die amid the trappings of vulgar respectability;  (source)
    vulgar = common (and so thought to be of unsophisticated)
  • * A man known primarily as "Pfiffikus"—whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint.†  (source)
    vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • I stood uncertain for a moment, wondering if I should bring the things into the kitchen or dump them vulgarly into the can at the end of the garden right then.†  (source)
    vulgarly = in a manner that shows bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • 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)
    vulgarities = things of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world.†  (source)
    vulgarest = most crude or offensive
  • It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.  (source)
    vulgar = in bad taste (unsophisticated or crude)
  • This school is a center of vulgarity and obscenity and they take girls for picnics to different resorts.†  (source)
    vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • ZOOEY THE facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.†  (source)
    vulgarly = in a manner that shows bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • 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)
    vulgarities = things of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
  • If she had done that, she ceased to be an object of interest, she threw in her lot with the vulgarest of dissemblers: a woman engaged in a love affair with Beaufort "classed" herself irretrievably.†  (source)
    vulgarest = most crude or offensive
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