All 13 Uses
vulgar
in
Man And Superman
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- Vulgarly, a libertine.†
Chpt Ded.vulgarly = in a manner that shows bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- But your dislike of vulgarity is pushed to the length of a defect (universality of character is impossible without a share of vulgarity); and even if you could acquire the taste, you would find yourself overfed from ordinary sources without troubling me.†
Chpt Ded.vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- But your dislike of vulgarity is pushed to the length of a defect (universality of character is impossible without a share of vulgarity); and even if you could acquire the taste, you would find yourself overfed from ordinary sources without troubling me.†
Chpt Ded.
- Which leads us to the conclusion, astonishing to the vulgar, that art, instead of being before all things the expression of the normal sexual situation, is really the only department in which sex is a superseded and secondary power, with its consciousness so confused and its purpose so perverted, that its ideas are mere fantasy to common men.†
Chpt Ded.vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- I never wanted you to do those dull, disappointing, brutal, stupid, vulgar things.†
Chpt 1
- English life seems to him to suffer from a lack of edifying rhetoric (which he calls moral tone); English behavior to show a want of respect for womanhood; English pronunciation to fail very vulgarly in tackling such words as world, girl, bird, etc.; English society to be plain spoken to an extent which stretches occasionally to intolerable coarseness; and English intercourse to need enlivening by games and stories and other pastimes; so he does not feel called upon to acquire these defects after taking great paths to cultivate himself in a first rate manner before venturing across the Atlantic.†
Chpt 2vulgarly = in a manner that shows bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- No vulgar profusion of vegetation: even a touch of aridity in the frequent patches of stones: Spanish magnificence and Spanish economy everywhere.†
Chpt 3vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- [mild, polite but persistent: he is, in fact, the respectable looking elderly man in the celluloid collar and cuffs] That is a vulgar error†
Chpt 3
- A more critical, fastidious, handsome face, paler and colder, without Tanner's impetuous credulity and enthusiasm, and without a touch of his modern plutocratic vulgarity, but still a resemblance, even an identity.†
Chpt 3vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Thither I shall go presently, because there I hope to escape at last from lies and from the tedious, vulgar pursuit of happiness, to spend my eons in contemplation— THE STATUE.†
Chpt 3vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Have no fear, Commander: this idea of a Catholic Church will survive Islam, will survive the Cross, will survive even that vulgar pageant of incompetent schoolboyish gladiators which you call the Army.†
Chpt 3
- But if you are naturally vulgar and credulous, as all reformers are, it will thrust you first into religion, where you will sprinkle water on babies to save their souls from me;†
Chpt 3
- he looks vulgar in his finery,
Chpt 3 *vulgar = lacking in sophistication or good taste
Definitions:
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(1)
(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)